Last light
No fight
Want out
Tonight
Begging you to make it right
So God if you can hear me
Burn this town
To the ground
Spent half my life
Trying to turn the other half around
Burn this town
Burn it down
Can’t see
Can’t breathe
But I
can’t leave
Make the decision for me
So God if you can hear me
Burn this town
Burn it down
One horse town
Burn it down
God if you can hear me
Burn it down
In the epic struggle between days and dreams, it’s the unfortunate soul living in a one horse town that gets caught in the crossfire. Usually too stubborn to give in but far too timid to leave, wrestling free from the grip of a dying town is an awfully hard thing to do. For those of us who grew up in small towns, we understand this predicament all too well.
Walking the deserted streets of Ashton on a lonely Sunday evening, the words of this entry pretty much wrote themselves.
Main Street, Ashton, NE (pop. 473)
TAGS: Ghost Towns, Mainstreet USA, Nebraska, The Great Plains, This Boy's Life
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