Slaughterhouse Blues

Living round here's like a slaughterhouse Folks come in but the don't come out And everyone's got a little blood on their hands When you're fighting over pennies, dollars & cents You don't need no college degree The unemployment rate is worse than it seems And if you don't take to drink & you don't take to drugs You work till you die or till your body gives out. I've got the slaughterhouse blues I've got the slaughterhouse blues And it ain't just this government that I blame It takes decades to let it get this way Between industry & the wealthy Who's there left to think about me? There ain't been revival since the church shut its doors And I guess that's been 10 years or more But there's still folks waiting for a sign I just don't got it in me to keep that kind of faith alive I've got the slaughterhouse blues I've got the slaughterhouse blues So I made plans to quit this town With a boy thats got a car that'll take me And it don't matter if we crash & burn, Just as long as we don't return to the slaughterhouse I've got the slaughterhouse blues I've got the slaughterhouse blues Oh, I've got the slaughterhouse blues