Dar Williams - Little Town lyrics

[Verse 1] It's nothing that you did, you gotta understand You're taking it too fast, it's going way too fast It's nothing that you did, it's not the color of your skin The one thing you should know, you gotta take it slow What they call the shifting of the sands I see as your demands When you change you can't ignore What things are and were before [Chorus] My family has been here for generations And now I have two children of my own And I knew that I would stay here, always knew I'd stay here It's not a new world that you found It's just a little town [Verse 2] Everybody knows who was born and raised here The mayor is my friend, I've known him all my life Each year he and I plan the Fourth of July So why'd he ask you too? You, especially you? He said this town, for all its pride, it's been dying from inside And we've got to find our way We'll start with Independence Day [Chorus] And as the fireworks came up above the mountain I saw you put your hand up to your heart And I saw the mayor watching, knew my kids were watching Hope that I would come around Big parade, little town [Bridge] Now the months come after months and every Fourth of July We help our children putting all the flags on the line Up and down the Main Street, every country that we're from Like the mayor always wanted He's been gone for seven years now [Verse 3] It's quiet by the lake, walking with our dogs How long has it been, oh it's been a long time now We talk about this town, you're the mayor of it now They're all moving here, everyone comes here We like to say we don't get out that much 'Cause the whole world comes to us We can't blame them now, we say, we are just a little great And you know that I'm not proud Those things I dared to say out loud But you wave it all away, my friend, you wave it all away [Chorus] But my kids, they went off in all directions And I know it's thanks to you they have returned They have all this understanding, all this understanding They have been the world around And they came back to our little town