The old home town is sure in trouble
It looks like it must have doubled in sin and size
Since I’ve been gone
The papers are all full of killing
Two million people willing to die
For something they’ve never known
The city streets of drunks and junk and stone
A heaven made of hell, they call their home
Now it’s gone like the life of a child
When it turns its back on your mind
Tomorrow has no home sweet home
Look what they’ve done to mine,
it just faded into time
Grandfather’s watch he gave me, is just another memory
That I’ve kept the way it always was
And ever since he died it just won’t run
I always knew I was his favorite one
And that old house we used to live in, the roof is fallin’ in
Like every other one along the block
It took twenty years to pay and ten to rot
That’s says it’s all just better off forgot