Hard Rock Town

You're born in debt
 And you're never free
 You work all your life
 For the company
 And the smoke pours down on your Mercury
 As the paint chips off your walls
 The slag cars roll to the heap side
 Down the slope flows a hellfire slide
 And the kids grow up too fast inside
 Then they're spittin' in the high school halls
 It's a hard rock town
 It's a hard rock town
 It'll grind you down
 It's a hard rock town
 Smoke blows up and slowly west
 Black as the suit that's always pressed
 When the funeral wagon calls
 Chevs and Fords on Saturday nights
 Blastin' past the hotel lights
 Laugh in the face of the day that might come
 When the rocks should rumble and fall
 It's a hard rock town
 It's a hard rock town
 It'll grind you down
 It's a hard rock town
 Is there a world like on T.V.
 Where people look better than you and me
 If there is it might as well be
 Far beyond the sun
 Lovers break each other's hearts
 Beautiful people walk in the park
 No one coughs in the morning dark
 Nobody is no one
 It's a hard rock town
 It's a hard rock town
 It'll grind you down
 It's a hard rock town