The Song the Kids Sing

Beyond this place, beyond the cafés and stores

Lies the death of me

Where the adults don't see

The boards start to creek

Down this lonesome street

At the end of school, we start the new rule

And the teachers leave

We don't see the chapel, we don't see the city

We gave away my dreams

Carry me far beyond this town

Before I'm laid out in the ground

For all of you to see

Let me see that all of this is stone
And I shouldn't feel alone

And I shouldn't have to be

The song the kids sing

The kids shoot the wall

Speaking in that loose drawl

Just in front of me

I want to rant and sing

But what good would it bring to the factory

I want to turn this around

But I'm wedged in the crack with the hollow seed

Who planted this madness

Who planted this sadness all around me

I'm not from this town, I'm from another old town
Far to the east

It's close to my brother, it's close to my father

It's inside of me

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