Murray McLauchlan - Hard Rock Town lyrics

You're born in debt And you're never free You live all your life For the company And the smoke pours down on your Mercury As the paint chips off your walls Slag cars roll to the heap side Down the slope flows a hellfire slide And the kids grow up too fast inside Then they're spittin' in the high school halls It's a hard rock town It's a hard rock town It'll grind you down It's a hard rock town Smoke drifts up and slowly west Black as a suit that's always pressed Far away like a day of rest When the funeral wagon calls Chevs and Fords on Saturday nights Blastin' past the hotel lights Laugh in the face of a day that might come When the rocks should rumble and fall It's a hard rock town It's a hard rock town It'll grind you down It's a hard rock town Is there a world like on T.V. Where people look better than you and me If there is it might as well be Far beyond the sun Lovers break each other's hearts Beautiful people walk in the park And no one coughs in the morning dark And nobody is no one It's a hard rock town It's a hard rock town It'll grind you down It's a hard rock town