Centralia, PA

Pennsylvania 61
 through the very heart for some
 where industry has long been gone
 looks like any old abandoned town
 it looks like any other place
 forgotten and left to waste
 its residents have long been chased
 away
 steam rises from the fields
 smoke-clouds skim the street
 a fire burns underneath
 the fallen city
 this old mining community
 is hotter than the planet mercury
 a statuette without a face
 disfigured and erased
 four hundred acres all unseen
 been burning since 1960
 the government gave it up
 paid money for all the people to move out
 they took their pictures and precious things
 their families, their histories
 level it all let nature reclaim
 this town
 smoke rises from the hills
 like some kind of poison spell
 the mines are smoldering still
 after fifty years
 they'll burn for a hundred more
 hollowing a harrowing core
 the coal went then the soul went
 the other way down
 Pennsylvania 61
 level it all
 don't look back on
 Pennsylvania 61