Greg Brown - One Big Town

Outside money burnt my hometown
Like a moth in a flame
All you got to do is travel around
And you'll see that everywhere it's the same

One big town
We're living in one big town
One big town
We're dying in one big town
World around

We hear the same song, see the same show
Under the shadow of the end-
Fear for our children wherever they may go
As we watch the red, red blood flow again

And it growns unknown like a cancer
All across the fruited plain
Spin the wheel for an answer
You never know what's in the wind and rain