Keep Virginia Beautiful -

The east coast may be home

But I want to go where no one knows my name

I stay up late when I need to get up early and can never make things right

But this awkward thing we’ve got going on ends tonight

Or maybe not ‘cause I don’t have the courage to be considered alone

And all my friends are busy whenever I come home

I’m tired of being stuck in your shadow, this cloudy overcast

Left on by what everyone swore wouldn’t last

But I managed to keep up all my faith when you managed to simply toss me away

Like an old magazine full of bands that you now hate

And I thought you would be different

And I thought you weren’t like the rest

And I thought I could count on the one who kept me from hitting the ground

Just before I lost my self respect

The east coast may be home

But I want to go where no one knows my name

I can’t get down with poetry, their contrived metaphors and forced rhyme schemes

It won’t help me face the facts, I’m down and lonely

‘Cause the only thing that ever brought me up was seeing your face at the end

of the month

As you watched my band play for some grungy club

And I thought you would be different

And I thought you weren’t like the rest

And I thought I could count on the one who kept me from hitting the ground

Just before I lost my self respect

The east coast may be home

But I want to go where no one knows my name

So far away ‘till I can’t see my house anymore

And hopefully I will be half the person I was before you met me

I wish I could swim back to shore ‘cause I’m sure it’s so much safer when I’m

home

And the only thing keeping me afloat is the constant hope that’s tearing up my

soul

I wish I could swim back to shore ‘cause I’m sure it’s so much safer when I’m

home

And the only thing keeping me afloat is the constant hope that’s tearing up my

soul