If you're headin' down the highway

Down about route ten

Get off at the last exit

And take it around the bend

You'll find a small town

But don't go hangin' 'round

'Cause hate lives in a small town

'Least that's what I have found

Moms are in the kitchens

And they're baking pies

They smell so good

They're made to

Cover up the smell of lies

There in a small town

But pies don't cure all ills

And hate lives in a small town

That's why those moms take pills

Well

I went to the big city

And everyone was wearing black

They saw that in my home town

They wouldn't stand for that

I saw kids all covered in tattoos

With mohawks and purple hair

But what really struck me

Was no one seemed to care

Well

The knights they beat the badgers

When they played down on the square

But they saved the biggest beatings

For a kid with longish hair

They're in a small town

That kid was me one year

'Cause hate lives in a small town

Moreso if you seem queer

The pastors in the pulpit

Preaching righteous lies

And the congregation

They don't know

He slept with all their wives

They're in a small town

And it's so plain to see

That hate lives in a small town

As does adultery

I went to the big city

With my clothes in a pack

When I got off at the station

There was no turning back

I met freaks and creeps and weirdos

Loose women and some geeks

And they were the nicest gosh darn people

I could ever hope to meet

When you roll into a small town

They're nice as they can be

But at night they put on sheets

And hang your sad a*s from a tree

They're in a small town

Don't dare be different

'Cause hate lives in a small town

Unless you're just like them

If you're living in a small town

And you feel you're in a vice

Just buy yourself a ticket

Kid

Just take my advice

And leave the small town

Be quick as you can be

Get out of that small town

And you'll be free like me