Fairfax, AK - Frankie Last Year lyrics

Hometown heroes and superstitions Are what keeps this town's heart beating You'll never smell sawdust In the nooks or crannies of its buildings Nothing ever changes Nothing ever grows The boys at public are fixin' to win state And I'm so tired of the repetition Gotta get out before it's too late Nostalgia is this town's religion That night I went to the tavern And I had myself a beer I talked about the future with an old friend Frankie Last Year "I'll believe it when I see it. Nothin's waiting for you out there The world gives guys like us a whole lot of nothin' So stick with the nothin' you're given Sit back and grab a plate of that old time religion" I knew that Frankie hated this town Yet we argued through the night I thought this place had finally got to him And then I realized Frankie's got nothing And if I leave he's got even less When you live on a steady diet of glory days Eventually you're gonna have to make more Sittin' in that tavern with Frankie I just can't afford Well that morning I awoke And I ran wherever my young legs would still take me Travelin' from state to state No one would stake me I had nothin' And now I have even less I lived on a steady diet of glory days Now I need to make more Sittin' in that tavern with Frankie Is all I can afford