A Day to Remember Songs - City of Ocala Lyrics

A Day to Remember - City of Ocala

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Album: Common Courtesy
Released: 2013

City of Ocala Lyrics

Fuck yeah!

Remember way back when, they said this life was a dream?
Well it still is, I never wanna wake
Standing in my backyard at our old practice space
Hard to hold back the tears from streaming down my face

That was then, this is now
You can't run before you go learn how, and you won't

This is our corner of the world
Where we can come to be ignored
This is our point where we return
This is where I came from
This is where I came from

Remember way back when? This place seemed bigger to me
Learned how to play guitar, and made my mum watch me
We always knew back then, just where I'd be right now
We never questioned it, was more like when and how

That was then, this is now
You can't run before you go learn how, and you won't

This is our corner of the world
Where we can come to be ignored
This is our point where we return
This is where I came from
This is what made us who we became
They know me, not just my name
There's not another place the same
This is where I came from
This is where I came from

Yeah!

You had another thing coming if you were sleeping on us
Same old voices in my ear saying enough is enough
Well, I'm saying me and all my friends don't need you around

Oh oh oh, this is where I came from, I'm right back at it again
Oh oh oh, this is where I came from
Oh oh oh, this is where I came from, I'm right back at it again
Oh oh oh, this is where I came from

This is what made us who we became
Where they know me, not just my name
There's not another place the same
This is where I came from
This is where I came from

Writer/s: GILBERT, CHAD / MCKINNON, JEREMY WADE / DENNEY, THOMAS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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City of Ocala

The opening track of Common Courtesy, this is about A Day To Remember's hometown of Ocala in Florida. Vocalist Jeremy McKinnon commented to Kerrang! magazine: "We've tended to be a little bit negative about Ocala, but as time goes on we've learned to appreciate it more."

McKinnon stated in a separate Kerrang! interview that the song is, "about standing in the back garden of my parents' house and looking in the garage where we started, where we'd practice, and where we'd terrorize the neighborhood."

Another band to hail from Ocala were the 1960s novelty-pop group, The Royal Guardsmen. They recorded a quartet of songs inspired by Snoopy the Beagle in the "Peanuts" comic strip including the 1966 #2 hit, "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron."

McKinnon expanded on the song to Kerrang!: "With city of Ocala, I really wanted to capture that fiery but being a child," he said. "I used to go and learn songs I loved by reading tabs, and then I would go get my mom and she would watch me play it. And if you think about it, that's where it all begins. I started there – we were kids and now were adults and this is our livelihood. The hell knew!"

"It's crazy that this happened but, at the same time, I'm happy that it happened in the small place, because it makes our story much more special than if we were in New York or Chicago, because there are huge music scenes there," he continued. "It's especially hard for someone to make it in the middle of nowhere, redneck, Florida (laughs)."