Notown

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Notown
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People flee out into the suburbs
and what you see are rows of empty houses
And the city is just a shell of what it used to be

It's like taking a mop to the ocean
You wring it out it's the same old town
There's more lead in the air than the water
The water burns when the lead comes down.

The whole city it looks like the 9th ward
block after block it's all comin' down
With 50,000 wild dogs in the streets and
another reason to stay inside

The whole city is there for the taking
so stake your claim and start again.
With so much land that is sitting vacant
plant your seeds and the heroes grow.
The kids all hang at the garage and the warehouse.
Making the best of what's still around.
It's hard to see through the urban blight but
there's so much good that has come before.

It's like taking a mop to the ocean
You wring it out it's the same old town.
There's more lead in the air than the water.
The water burns when the lead comes down.
The whole city is there for the taking.
So, stake your claim and start again.
It's hard to see through the urban blight but
there's so much good that has come before.

We've got so far to go
With so many roads
who knows where to go
and how to clean it up.
It takes everyone
in the here and now.

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from Hidden Shadows, released February 11, 2014

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