Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Ada Lea - hometown
from hometown / heard you
out on Saddle Creek and Next Door.
Order: adalea.scfm.me/hometown

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Music and Lyrics: Alexandra Levy
Produced : Alexandra Levy & Marshall Vore
Engineered by : Alexandra Levy, Marshall Vore, and Thomas Molander
Mixed by: Burke Reid
Mastered by: Heather Kirby

Alexandra Levy: Lead Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Harrison Whitford: Guitar, Bass
Christopher Hauer: Guitar
Marshall Vore: Keyboards, Percussion
Tasy Hudson: Drums
Felicity DeCarle: Vocals

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LYRICS
all fares well, in my hometown
zoom out like i’m watching it from a tv screen
don’t want to have this world between us

mess in my eye, blood on my skirt
don't want to be afraid, nor be on my way
we all have that same look in our eyes
for some of us it never dies

sun is hot, and the air is thick
i'm waiting at the corner of clark and saint-zotique
for someone that’ll help me get out of here
like that’s where i'd rather be than just standing here

you’d be hard pressed to leave this place behind
now that things ain’t so bad here anymore
you’d be hard pressed to leave this place behind

walk around, in my evening dress
street lamps glimmering very suspiciously—
and someone is calling my name
from the backseat of a cab

and all fares well, in my hometown
where everything is different but nothing has changed
you see us go by like you’re riding a train
and the feeling is gone but you stay, just the same

pack up move out
come back without
saying “I can no longer stick around
in my hometown”

pack up move out
come back saying
“there was always something
bringing me down
in my hometown”

you’d be hard pressed to leave this place behind
now that things ain’t so bad here anymore
you’d be hard pressed to leave this place behind
now that things ain’t so bad here anymore

tough love, kid
that’s what I say to me


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