Ghost Towns

John Statz - Ghost Towns Intro: (2x) Cleveland, Janesville, Camden Or East St. Louis, where they used to make The things that we would all use every day Now we've shipped it to Korea China, Indonesia, left like ghost towns The old west, laid to rest and left decayed They say, "Lets get with the program, There's nothing like the globalisation" Of our pay-checks, bank accounts and place to stay Lets give free trade to the masses Americans have assets Like satellite TV's, big cars, iPods and fancy dress Left you drowning in the street Bills, a rope around your neck And this big old flatscreen TV Won't mean a thing to me when we're dead INTERLUDE: We're kept separate by the waters Cut off from one another where we used to play In fields as kids, at night time with the moon Now lets get out of the suburbs These modern sprawling deserts And take back all those cities, towns and counties we once knew Left you drowning in the street Bills, a rope around your neck And this big old flatscreen TV Won't mean a thing to me when you're dead Left you drowning in the street Well, bills, a rope around your neck And we'll talk about the hard times The ones we ain't be leaving yet OUTRO: