I'm not from here   I just live here   grew up somewhere far away   come here thinking I'd never stay long   I'd be going back soon someday      it's been a few years   since I got here   seen 'em come and I've seen 'em go   crowds assemble, they hang out awhile   then they melt away like an early snow      onto some bright future somewhere   down the road to points unknown   sending postcards when they get there   wherever it is they think they're goin'      I'm not from here   I just live here   can't see that it matters much   I read the papers and I watch the nightly news   who's to say I'm out of touch      nobody's from here   most of us just live here   locals long since moved away   sold the played-out farms for parking lots   went off looking for a better way      onto some bright future somewhere   better times on down the road   wonder if they ever got there   wherever it was they thought they'd go      hit my home town   a couple years back   hard to say just how it felt   but it looked like so many towns I might've been through   on my way to somewhere else      I'm not from here   but people tell me   it's not like it used to be   they say I should have been here   back about ten years   before it got ruined by folks like me      we can't help it   we just keep moving   it's been that way since long ago   since the stone age, chasing the great herds   we mostly go where we have to go      onto some bright future somewhere   down the road to points unknown   sending post cards when we get there   wherever it is we think we'll go