One Big Town - Greg Brown

Outside money burnt my hometown

Like a moth in a flame

All you got to do is travel around

And you’ll see that everywhere it’s the same

One big town

We’re living in one big town

One big town

We’re dying in one big town

World around

We hear the same song, see the same show

Under the shadow of the end-

Fear for our children wherever they may go As we watch the red, red blood flow again

And it growns unknown like a cancer

All across the fruited plain

Spin the wheel for an answer

You never know what’s in the wind and rain