Ten Years Gone By

Just these wounds and battle scars.
All my people scattered to the wind,
And I'm a stranger where I grew up in.
Used to be a hundred reasons to believe this place would never change.
Now the pain is cracked and fading,
Everything feels cold and strange.
Called my brother from a payphone, he said,
"Don't bother coming around." Everybody left who could leave here,
Searching for some better ground.
Ten years I've been away from here,
Thought home would always stay the same.
But the town died while I was chasing all those dreams that pulled me far.