Ghost on Main Street

Ten years away, and the first thing you notice isn't who's missing. It's the building. This one's about going back to the place that raised you and realizing it kept living without you in it. The diner's a phone shop now. The bell over the door is gone. The sidewalk still remembers your feet, even if the street doesn't remember your face. It's not a sad song. It's a song about figuring out that home was never really the address. lyrics below if you want to sing along. [Verse 1] I count the cracks like I did when I was ten same sidewalk, but it doesn't know my shoes the bell above the diner door went quiet replaced by screens I'll never learn to use [Pre-Chorus] I'm standing still while everything's turned and nothing here remembers what I learned [Chorus] I'm a ghost on Main Street, walking through the new a face in the window that nobody knew the town kept growing, I got left behind but home's not a building, home's a thing I find [Verse 2] The park still holds the oak that hasn't changed it's the only thing that knows my name they repainted every storefront twice but the tree out back stayed exactly the same [Bridge] Maybe I've been mourning the wrong thing what if the place was never really it the diner's just a building, let it be the home I'm grieving is the one I carry, I admit [Final Chorus] I'm not a ghost on Main Street, I belong to a place that's changed, but I carry it along the town kept growing, I got left behind but home's not a building, home's a thing I find new here? this is The Quiet Microphone - original songs about the feelings that don't usually get written down. new one most weeks. #indiefolk #originalmusic #hometown #americana #folkpop #newmusic