1) HOMECOMING QUEEN Borrowed a dress from Caroline She looked her best and I looked mine Fancy dinner at the corner store We ordered all we could afford Bittersweet homecoming queen A pickup truck, her dad, and me She got knocked up the year before So she don't dance alone anymore 'Cause in this stupid little town Word gets around Bittersweet homecoming queen Snuck out the back, held the door for me Up on the roof throwing rocks at cars At all the perfect people who never had it hard In this perfect little town Word gets around But I don't care 'cause she says that this is love Bittersweet homecoming queen Dreams of the boys in the magazines She's saving up, she's got a job One day I guess she'll just be gone And when she leaves this little town I'll still be around But I don't care 'cause she says that this is love And I need to be in love Borrowed a suit from Reverend White And at the church the guests arrived My eyes never left the door But I knew that she was gone for good 'Cause in this stupid little town Word got around That mine was an easy heart to break 2) ST. MARY'S Go to shows down at St. Mary's Spend a dollar at the five'n'dime Spin your lipstick Make yourself pretty I don't love her, I don't even try All my big sky dreams Are lost in this small town And I would up and leave If I knew how I miss the bright lights of New York City I miss the sound of the sidewalk against my shoes There ain't no bright lights in the middle of Virginia And damn I hate these southern blues And all my big sky dreams Are lost in this small town I would up and leave If I knew how Oh, Virginia My reckless years have left me old Oh, Virginia My restless eyes have never closed Oh, Virginia Your rolling hills have been my home Out on the corner of Faith and Independance Lookin' for trouble or a free ride All my late nights keep turning into mornings But I never aged on a Sunday drive And all my big sky dreams Are lost on this small town But I would up and leave If I knew how Oh, Virginia My reckless years have left me old Oh, Virginia My restless eyes have never closed Oh, Virginia Your rolling hills have been my home Oh, Virginia My reckless years have left me old Oh, Virginia My restless eyes have never closed Mine are the sleepwalker's shoes Mine are the daydreamer's blues 3) SECOND TIME AROUND Second time around things will be easier If I meant the words maybe I'd believe them But everybody feels the tide So when my heart starts to swell I will keep it to myself And sing it heartsick and waiting When time is only time Count the seconds out Plan the day around The secret that you found Second time around things will be easier If you heard the words they wouldn't mean anything So set fire to the record store in Annandale Where we first heard Static Prevails Set fire to the photobooth Where you first knew I wanted pictures of you So sing it heartsick and waiting When time is only time Count the seconds out Plan your day around The secret that you found 4) CAROLINA Carolina, I have decided That I would rather be alone Once you were all I had Once you were all I wanted Carolina So here's to love Here's to love Here's to August at your shores You will always be the summer You will always be the summer And if I'll always be alone Then Carolina, I have decided That I would rather be alone Once you were all I had Once you were all I wanted Carolina 5) BUTTERFLY Smoking cigarettes to feel Older than we are To feel the air we breathe We have waited Up to the overpass when your neighbors called the cops Trying to get back to that first night In your quiet laugh I knew that we were lost Just feel the silence sinking in Butterfly in the dead of night Right in front of you Spread my wings and I close my eyes I've been falling October thirty one And angel and a boy who prays to astronauts Stumble up a hill I went up a good son And came down a landslide She went up with lace wings And came down a butterfly . . in the dead of night Right in front of you Spread my wings and I close my eyes I've been falling 6) ON ASH WEDNESDAY [respect to Mr. T.S. Eliot]