(Verse 1)
Got a postcard from my hometown yesterday
Says they’re tearing down the place where we used to play
Main Street’s empty, but the gossip still runs wild
Everyone knows everyone since I was a child
The café’s closed, the church bells still ring
But whispers travel faster than anything
Can’t hide from what you’ve done or who you are
When everybody knows you drive that beat-up car
(Chorus)
It’s big troubles in a small world
Where secrets don’t stay buried long
Big troubles in a small world
When everything you do is wrong
You can run to California, fly to New York City
But the phone calls find you anyway
It’s big troubles in a small world
And they follow you every day
(Verse 2)
Mama says the neighbors are still talking ’bout
The night I left you standing with your wedding dress
Five years gone but they remember every word
In a town where nothing’s forgotten or unheard
(Chorus)
It’s big troubles in a small world
Where secrets don’t stay buried long
Big troubles in a small world
When everything you do is wrong
You can run to California, fly to New York City
But the phone calls find you anyway
It’s big troubles in a small world
And they follow you every day
(Bridge)
Maybe someday I’ll go back home
Face the music, stand alone
But until then I’ll keep on running
From that small world where trouble’s coming
(Final Chorus)
From big troubles in a small world
Where secrets don’t stay buried long
Big troubles in a small world
But maybe I was never wrong
You can run to California, fly to New York City
Start over in your own way
Leave those troubles in that small world
Yesterday’s yesterday
(Outro)
Yeah, leave those troubles in that small world
Yesterday’s yesterday