Bloody Harlan

Bloody Harlan We had honest roads waiting for us then I was about your age now Houses on the rise, a theatre lit the strip With traffic on the streets in town I heard a rumble 'round that time through the halls of junior high Year's end I was flunking out They blew the hills to the sky while the world passed us by cnd the ghosts of bloody Harlan hung around Nothing coming for miles and miles Nothing but trouble to get up to at night We'd go down to the water with the sins of our fathers Where the ghosts of bloody Harlan howl The ghosts of bloody Harlan howl The deprivation of decline bore a hollow of his eyes Whisky to wash it all out cnd though he's long gone when the river's calm I can See him looking back at me anyhow cnd of all those boys I'm near the last of us left Neither elsewhere nor six feet south I settle 'neath the weather of an easy fix Where the ghosts of bloody Harlan howl The ghosts of bloody Harlan howl Now when the wind whistles over the hills through the broken Windows of that old house It chills to the bone given nowhere to go cnd it kills just to live it down You oughta never look back with the dreams that you have The plans your always talking about There just no good to come of a highway song Drowning in Harlan howl Nothing coming for miles and miles Nothing but trouble to get up to at night cnd you'll muddy up the water just like your father Where the ghost of bloody Harlan howl The ghost of bloody Harlan howl Drowning in a Harlan howl