Our Town

This is own town, this is my place This is where my whole world is lived in Nothing much, and just out of reach of all the city lights It's a high town, it's a low town It's a get you come and you grow town No-one does, but everyone thinks they're gonna make it soon This is one place I'm respected Now I feel it's really rejected No-one cares and the people just stare As the man on the bike says "Hey you, don't walk away, vote for me You betterkeep working hard" They're paying you so Here it comes now Sunday morning Just another sleepy town yawning Down the road everything looks just like another day But in the warm glow of the sunrise There's a child who's searching with young eyes See him now, the feeling inside he's gonna fly away There was one time I was leaving But the folks around me kept grieving Friends said: "Go" but my Dad said: "No" And my Mum kept saying "Don't go, don't go away Don't leave us, you've got to stay Just raise them kids, all Mama's know" No prospects, just projects Don't try to tell me we're leaving There's no real need to try Can't you see this town's gonna die Hail the new age, it's a rat cage Join the place for breeding your species All stacked up and doing whatever someone tells you to Burn the place down, make it dead ground Show the people just what they're missing Wake up, wake up, can't you believe what I'm telling you There's a house where I was born in Now it's changed without any warning Panes just crash and plates just smash Why the billboard's saying "Let's go, let's get away You wish you could stay When sunshine calls, but I won't go This is our town.