Shutting Down Our Town

This used to be a place where a man could find some work Put together Holdens or a foundry job at worst I can hear the noises coming from the Karawara deep into the night The roads were filled with kids playing after dark Sent to get their fathers who were sitting at the bar Eat, sleep, work, drink, that's all they ever did Oh, they're shutting down our town They're cutting down our town No more production line blue collar can be found They'll tear it to the ground They're shutting down our town Oh, they're shutting down our town I started raising hell before I came of age Running from my past with clenched fists of rage And I fought my way through every other day, never looking back Oh, and everything I knew was back there on those streets Every lesson learned, kept me on my feet But I can't help thinking of the ones I left behind Oh, they're shutting down our town They're cutting down our town No more production line blue collar can be found They'll tear it to the ground They're shutting down our town Oh, they're shutting down our town Oh they're shutting down our town They're tearing out its heart It wasn't much to look at from the very start Herded all together, from many different lands The old folks stand around While they're shutting down our town Yeah, they're shutting down our town They're shutting down our town And I finally came back home, found some peace at last Was time to stop running from the demons of my past Some that I remember but the rest are changing way too fast Yeah, they're shutting down our town They're cutting down our town No more production line blue collar can be found They'll tear it to the ground They're shutting down our town Oh, they're shutting down our town They're shutting down our town You know they'll tear it to the ground Yeah they're shutting down our town They'll tear it to the ground They're shutting down our town Yeah they're shutting down our town