Original Song Lyrics (without audio)

I chatted the other evening on Facebook with my first ever girlfriend (funny how Facebook can do this too you) and it reminded me of a nostalgic song I wrote at a time when it looked like I was going to be forced to move back into my parents' basement. I avoided that by finding a job in Georgetown, but that's another story entirely.

So, I'm going to go with an experimental approach and post some original song lyrics here.

Hope you like.

"HOGAN ROAD"

(C) 2009 By Kent Kimes

At times it would be so silent

At the house with the funky door

But when the boys were racing

You could hear those engines roar

I'd lay in bed for hours

Pretending to be asleep

The world kept passing by me

Right down our little street

Hogan Road

Where did those memories go?

The circle brings me back

To Hogan Road

Hogan Road

Is paved with love and sadness

Couldn't wait to leave

But now I'm going home

Caught the bus on the corner

Before the sun came up

Fighting in the church yard

You know I had some decent luck

Got my first kiss on the playground

A couple of blocks from home

We snuck down by the creek side

And she slipped me a little tongue 

Hogan Road

Where did those memories go?

The circle brings me back

To Hogan Road

Hogan Road

Is paved with love and sadness

Couldn't wait to leave

But now I'm going home

(BRIDGE) 

Tales of a misspent 

And wasted youth?

No, that ain't 

half the truth

No guns and mobsters

No stabbin' steely swords

The simple fact remained

I was completely bored

On Hogan Road...