Over the Red Cedar

Take a look at their big house
 Bigger than they really needed
 He got the duallies on his pickup
 When the dealer gave him a choice
 And lost his job on the buildsite
 Now he's struggling to feed his boys
 The Red Cedar flows
 The Red Cedar grows
 And long after yr gone
 It's outlasting you
 His wife was his high school girl
 They never left this town
 It booms and busts and heaves and rusts
 But they can't bear to go
 Now they couldn't go if they wanted to
 There's no work anywhere anymore
 The Red Cedar flows
 The Red Cedar grows
 And long after yr gone
 It's outlasting you
 She's been serving food down at Bud's
 He can't stand to see her there
 Where the desperate men sit and drink
 And stare too long at her legs
 While he sits home with the kids at night
 And hides the worry on his face
 The Red Cedar flows
 The Red Cedar grows
 And long after yr gone
 It's outlasting you
 Now their kids are getting bigger
 They can't play outside like it used to be
 You know what's lurking out there
 It's all on the news every night
 That villiage that it takes to raise our kids
 Is afraid to come outside
 The Red Cedar flows
 The Red Cedar grows
 And long after yr gone
 It's outlasting you
 Tuesday afternoons are the hardest
 When time seems to stand still
 They've piled up quite a few of them now
 20 year's worth of not quite three o'clocks
 But time moves as fast as it ever did
 And you can't just slow it down
 The Red Cedar flows
 The Red Cedar grows
 And long after yr gone
 It's outlasting you