Population One Lyrics

I'll stay as long as I can

This town is a ghost land

Everybody moved away

And I just stayed behind

I claimed their tasks - one by one

Every job still needs getting done

And I do them not just to pass the time

At the general store, there's everything that I need

I buy and sell myself my groceries

Then balance the till

I hired myself, the job is mundane

But I pay myself a living wage

With plenty of overtime to fill

This town has it all

Like Rome after the fall

Keep on

Keep on

The opposite of urban sprawl

At the barber shop I cut my own hair

Clean my teeth in the dentist's chair

I've got keys to everywhere

I wear a white coat and my stethoscope

When I tell myself I'm getting sick

I make sure my insurance covers it

I'm a learned man, I teach myself in the school

My syllabus is almost always full

No easy A's

I sing in the choir, and I preach to the pews

But the Bible's only seldom used

No fire and brimstone left these days

This all resembles culture

A facsimile of life

Move on

Move on

Staving off that slow demise

I walk the beat, but I'm always unarmed

There's no crime I've committed so far

No quid pro quo

But I'd lawyer up and present my own case

A judge and jury with one same face

I hope my innocence would show

I lay on the couch when I'm feeling unsure

For a dose of the talking cure

It's not funny, it works

Play chess with myself, sometimes I let myself win

The witty banter's really wearing thin

I'm miss people so much it hurts

My small town kind of living

Smallest town under the sun

So alone

In my home

And it's population one

I'll stay as long as I can

In this skeletal ghost land

Everybody moved away

And I just stayed behind

There's one job I could never do

An undertaker and a body too

To save some one else's precious time

I'll build myself coffin

Someday I'll climb right in

When the time is right

When the time is right

In the neighborly tradition

This town has got it all

Like Rome after the fall

My town

This sacred ground

It's future population none