Name: City Boy
Duration: P00H04M10S
Description: After living in a small town, and getting claustrophobic, I knew it was time to take to the Open Road and find a city to hang my hat in.

City Boy

from Open Road by Adam Kurtz

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After living in a small town, and getting claustrophobic, I knew it was time to take to the Open Road and find a city to hang my hat in.

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I walk to work each morning wave the same wave to the same folks every day
Give the same what’s ups and good to see you’s and stroll along our same old way
Grab a cup of coffee from the Hill Top there they always know my name
So why do I feel claustrophobic when that’s exactly why I came?

It’s something in my brain
I rig it so I can never win
And I shoulda know, yeah I should know from the beginning
I’m a city boy in small town skin

I couldn’t live I couldn’t breath I couldn’t sing I couldn’t even try
I had no name I had no plan I had no game I had no fish to fry
I dropped it all ran to the sea reset my clock but watched the days tick by
I dropped the ball with atrophy a lot of talk but never any why

And I knew something was amiss from the moment I touched down
In the back of my head where the truth goes to wait
There’ve been uprising brewin’ but stalled out the gate
Cause I, I felt torn

The grass is green the sky is blue I’ve never seen a place where that ain’t true
And unless I die I can always come back to the comforts I knew

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from Open Road, released September 27, 2009
All instruments by Adam Kurtz
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Adam Kurtz at Halfway Rock Studios, Harpswell, ME in September, 2009

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