Steel - Bob Catley

Sometimes these tired old streets can feel strange

I watch the tumbleweed now where I used to play

What I felt way back then was called 'change'

Just like a thundercloud from the horizon it came

And from the start

It took control

It burnt its way inside this soul

It broke this heart

It cracked these bones

As deep inside we turned to stone

I could never change the way I feel

Only this is surreal

And, oh

Trampled just like dust beneath the heels

Of industrial steel

The riverbed has cracked to its clay

And it’s been centuries now since I tasted rain

The echoes only whisper these days

To stir the ghosts of this town where shadows remain

And from the start

It took control

It burnt its way inside this soul

It broke this heart

It cracked these bones

As deep inside we turned to stone

I could never change the way I feel

Only this is surreal

And, oh

Trampled just like dust beneath the heels

Of industrial steel

And from the start

It took control

It burnt its way inside this soul

It broke this heart

It cracked these bones

As deep inside we turned to stone

I could never change the way I feel

Only this is surreal

And, oh

Trampled just like dust beneath the heels

Of industrial steel