"Our Town" is a song used in Disney/Pixar's 2006 animated film Cars. It was composed by Randy Newman, and performed by James Taylor, which appears on the Cars (Original Motion Picture) Soundtrack album made by Walt Disney Records.
The song is a ballad that recounts the economic decline of the fictional town of Radiator Springs and Route 66 after the construction of Interstate 40.
At the 49th Grammy Awards (given on February 11, 2007), the song won the award for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media. The same night, Newman's work for Cars won for Music in an Animated Feature Production, at the 34th Annie Awards. The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but lost to "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth.
The Norwegian, Croatian, Català n, European Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, European Spanish, Icelandic, Finnish, Canadian French, Taiwanese Mandarin, Finnish, Cantonese, and the Korean dubs are the only international dubs of the movie to translate the song.
Lyrics[]
Long ago, but not so very long ago,
But the world was different, oh, yes, it was.
You settle down, and you build a town and made it there.
And you watch it grow, it was your town.
Time goes by, time brings changes, and you changed, too.
Nothing comes that you can't handle, so on you go.
You never see it coming when the world caves in on you.
On your town, and there's nothing you can do
Main street isn't main street anymore.
Lights don't shine as brightly as they shone before.
Tell the truth, lights don't shine at all
In our town.
Sun comes up each morning, just like it's always done.
Get up, go to work, and start the day.
You open up for business, that's never gonna come
As the world rolls by, a million miles away.
Main street isn't main street anymore.
No one seems to need us like they did before.
It's hard to find a reason left to stay,
But it's our town, and we love it anyway.
Come what may, it's our town.
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- This song may be similar to "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2, since both have similar melodies and backstory.
