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Ghost Town

from Move On by Ben Shannon

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Ghost Town

Someones coming home with some workboots on 
and a lunch box in their hand.
And someone is hearing that rock n' roll music
like its coming from a little tin can.
Someones picking food in a back yard garden 
with the wash out on a line
where the honey suckle blooms and the buzzing bees loom 
in the town that used to live here

Yeah the town that used to live here
there was a way of livin that we could be living if we 
had a moment to share in the town that used to live here

Someone sits down and plays the piano 
with the door wide open to the night
Someone sits rockin in those rockin chairs
singin along in the pale moon light.
Someone is standing at the bottom of the stairs
listening with all of their might
to the song that keeps coming from the place we been running
the town that used to live here...

Yeah the town that used to live here
there was a way of livin that we could be living if we 
had a moment to share in the town that used to live here

no one is cryin thats just water thats tryin to turn itself back into rain
and no one is lonesome thats an old dog moaning
and straining at a length of his chain
and no one is broken thats just empty bottles
lying on their side in the rain
no one is feeling that empty old feeling in the town that used to lived here

“Once upon a time the end” is a story 
that some folks believe is coming true
It says our factories and schools our firehalls and pools 
Are just a flash of light passin on through
It says we all will become comfortable and numb 
forget what we were put here to do
It says we'll plant a flag in our yard and turn back
in the dream we're livin up to

Yeah the town that used to live here
There was a way of livin that we could be living if we 
had a moment to share in the town that used to live here

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from Move On, released August 8, 2013

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Ben Shannon Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Writing songs is a way of participating in a conversation about what meaning my little life and the world we all share might hold. Music has been a portal into the language of emotion. Songwriting, specifically, is a tool of survival that I've been able to use to manifest and maintain myself. These days I strive to be careful with the words I sing as they tend to have a way of coming true. ... more

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