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