Ghost Town

It ain’t cause the interstate was built 10 years ago

No one takes the river valley highway anymore

It ain’t cause the factory shut down in ’94

For sale, for rent, for lease in every storefront glass window

I’m living in a ghost town

Cause she walked out

And she left me here alone

Can’t drive around, can’t go to town, can’t even sit at home

Without seeing every memory

In every sight and sound

I’m haunted by the roots that that girl

Pulled up from the ground

Now I’m living in a ghost town

It ain’t cause the family farms got sold by next of kin

For half of what they’re worth just to pay back the debt they’re in

We used to lay down in the pastures and talk about your dreams

Now that you’re gone there might as well be no one here but me

I’m living in a ghost town

Cause she walked out

And she left me here alone

Can’t drive around, can’t go to town, can’t even sit at home

Without seeing every memory

In every sight and sound

I’m haunted by the roots that that girl

Pulled up from the ground

Now I’m living in a ghost town

It ain’t cause the population goes down every year

It’s cause the population’s minus one without you here

I’m living in a ghost town

I’m living in a ghost town

Cause she walked out

And she left me here alone

Can’t drive around, can’t go to town, can’t even sit at home

Without seeing every memory

In every sight and sound

I’m haunted by the roots that that girl

Pulled up from the ground

Now I’m living in a ghost town