Charity Town

Monday they announced They were shutting the papermill down Newsprint trading under Seventy cents a pound Back in the day This place was renowned Now it's just a charity town Nine hundred people let go And there's no other work to be found They put up a chain-link fence And a sign just says to keep out There's nothing left for anyone here But a burial ground Nothing but a charity town Boarded up stores and donation cans Discount clothes from the Helping Hands Salvation Army makes a final stand And there ain't no sign of Superman It's hard and it's sad And it's real and profound The future's got plans And the future isn't fucking around The carey deck crane is Taking the big letters sign down Down to a charity town I lie in bed thinkin' 'bout The kids and the house Had a dream I was up in the air Trying not to look down Then everything broke I felt the rush of the ground Woke up in a charity town Boarded up stores and donation cans Discount clothes from the Helping Hands Salvation Army makes a final stand And there ain't no sign of Superman Monday they announced They were shutting the papermill down Newsprint trading under Seventy cents a pound Back in the day This place was renowned Now it's just a charity town