Take Me with You

Got my start in the northern parts, place they call Midwest Adults who do not know they are, school-bound by morning Made my way through the Prairie State before the sun arose Rocking lonely ones to sleep, still many hours to go, oh, oh I see gold fields, dry from the August heat Where the delta and city meet Lonely houses sit atop those hills And the playgrounds where no children play Streets that once knew better days Before empty after empty building started falling down I'll find my end and begin again where we drop below the sea And by this time you will not believe what I've already seen Empty bottles from Saturday night left down by the railroad tracks Old mean lean in the shade of the trees who know they can't look back I see gold fields, dry from the August heat Where the delta and city meet Lonely houses sit atop those hills And the playgrounds where no children play Streets that once knew better days Before empty after empty building started falling down And every day I pass you I can hear Every day I pass you I can hear you say Take me with you But someone's gotta stay, someone's gotta stay Someone's gotta stay, someone's gotta stay in those Gold fields dry from the August heat That one day will remember green And know new life again Know new life again