A Home In The Country Lyrics

It's always been my dream

To make my home in the country

Beneath these wide open skies

Fall asleep at night

To the sound of the cricket chorus

Letting my cares pass me by

They dug up the fields today

They're building a mini mall

Here come the coffee chains

I'm watching the tall oaks fall

It's still so real in my mind

A life of peace in the country

Watching the clouds roll on by

Now it's hard to sleep at night

With the future so uncertain

Was my dream just a lie

They dug up the fields today

They're building a mini mall

Here come the coffee chains

I'm watching the tall oaks fall

And the fast food wrappers will come blowing in

Rolling 'cross the prairie like tumbleweeds

Dollar store consumerism heroin

Pushing plastic junk that nobody needs

It's time to gather some things

In my little home in the country

I've wiped the tears from my eyes

Making a couple of plans

Reinventing the future

Someone somewhere has to try

They dug up the fields today

They're building a mini mall

Here come the coffee chains

I'm watching the tall oaks fall

And the fast food wrappers will come blowing in

Rolling 'cross the prairie like tumbleweeds

Dollar store consumerism heroin

Pushing plastic junk that nobody needs

Then the rootless lemmings with their power ties

Choking off the blood flow to their brains

Will build a society condo-sized

Along a flowing river of highway lanes

That lead to fields of department stores

Drowning out the stars with fluorescent light

Happiness imported from a distant shore

Farewell fools, goodbye, God bless, goodnight

Farewell fools, goodbye, God bless, goodnight

Farewell fools, goodbye, God bless, goodnight