John Hiatt - Down Around My Place lyrics

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<b>Down Around My Place</b> by <i>John Hiatt</i><br />The radio is busted

Down around my place

Every tool is rusted

Down around my place

The creeks and rivers dried up

Down around my place

My woman's tears are cried up

Down around my place

And before there came a flood

Some lost all even blood

Now the sun and wind have come

And left no trace down around my place

Down around my place

These hunting grounds were hallowed

Down around my place

Exhausted fields lay fallow

Down around my place

Kingdoms come and crumbled

Down around my place

My prayers are merely mumbled

Down around my place

And I put my faith in you

Did you make that error too?

Bound to fail that he might show his grace

Down around my place

Down around my place

Down around my place

Said you wouldn't believe

What a paradise this was

Till every Adam and Eve, Tom, Dick and Harry

Started fighting for what he loved

Still we fortified the ramparts

And we built the mighty towers

But it was plain to see we never were free

From the tyranny of the hour

Family graves keep winking

Down around my place

At every thought I'm thinking

Down around my place

While the young ones crowd the table

Down around my place

They're bitching about no cable

Down around my place

And my grandpa says, "Don't worry"

It's always the last one in who's in a hurry

To try and slam the door in the next one's face

Down around my place

Down around my place

Down around my place

Down around my place

Down around my place