Charity Town Lyrics

Monday they announced

They were shutting the paper mill 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 paper mill down

Newsprint trading under

Seventy cents a pound

Back in the day

This place was renowned

Now it's just a charity town