| For quite awhile, Ghost Town was my favorite of all the songs that I've written. Maybe it still is. It's about going back to a place where you've lived -- maybe even back to your old hometown -- and expecting it to be the same... expecting all of those places and people to be there waiting for you. But you return, and reality sets in. Alas, "the melody is gone". The last line of the first verse, which sets the tone of the song, comes from the title of the Thomas Wolfe novel, You Can't Go Home Again, a book I've never actually read - Steve H. |
1. I came back here / to hear a long
forgotten song
But this is now / and that was then
And I've searched these silent streets
/ but the melody is gone
Like they say / you can't go home
again
chorus:
This is like a ghost town
Everything's been closed down
And on Main Street / the only sound
Is the wind blowin' leaves around
This is like a ghost town
2. This town was still alive / when
I was a child
Now that's all buried / in the past
Where flowers used to grow / the
weeds are runnin' wild
There's only broken dreams / and
broken glass
repeat chorus
3. I can feel the memories / underneath
my feet
Though nobody here / knows who I
am
But if Jesus Christ himself / came
walkin' down this street
Nobody here / would even give a damn
repeat chorus.
| Ghost Town
appears
on the
Steve Haggard CD, "Mysterious Ways" Available on Wild Oats Records (OAT-714) |