Quiet Hollers - Midwestern lyrics

All the d** are all gone now And all your friends are gone, too And now you face the day alone With no-one to blame but you And you might say "how did I get here? They said I had so much potential..." Out here in the cold Where the rain and the snow are always torrential And now you're calling out to the sky Sometimes you pray to god to die And didn't we used to say We'd rise above it all some day You're a far cry from sixteen On the back of some delinquent's motorbike You said your town was too small For a girl to be whoever she likes So you came here to the city With its midwestern offerings of culture And when the vices found you On the walk home from school They descended like vultures And now you're calling out to the sky As your life pa**es you by And didn't I used to say Some day I'll be digging your grave All you learned here was pity All you ever knew how to do was drink But in the back of a police car You might have a little time to think You might say "how did I get here? They said I had so much potential" Out here in the cold Where the rain and the snow are always torrential And now you call out to the sky But would you stop to reason why? And didn't we used to say We'd rise above it all Some day Some day