Lyrics

My Town

you?re a very pretty girl
what are you doing here?
you smell of shattered innocence and numbed-out fear
the cracking in your facepaint smiles a wicked frown
Still you?re looking cute and nervy in my town

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do you feel the isolation when your guard is down
another whispered lamentation to the stinking ground
did he tell you that he loved you well he jerked you round and left you here
in my town

it?s always bitter cold round here the skies are gray
the light comes out to beat us down everyday
there?s only one lady who can set you right
see her in the mirror if you look tonight

chorus

the place that i call my town well it?s not quite real
because its not a place you go its a place you feel
and it ain?t in no cafe, no nightclub
not on earth or heaven, or in hell above.

chorus

©1998 P.J. Shapiro