The ol' home town is sure in trouble
It's looks like it must have doubled
It's city-size since I been gone
The papers all are full of killing
Two million people willing
To die for something they've never known
The city streets of drunks junk and stone
A heaven made in hell they call their home

Now it's gone like the life of a child
When it turn its back on your mind
Tommorrow has no home sweet home
Look what they've done to mind
It's just faded into time

Grandfather's watch he gave me
Is just another memory
I have kept the way it always was
And ever since he died, it just wont run
I always knew I was his favorite one

* Refrain

And that old house we used to live in
The root is falling in
Like every other one along the Hook
It took 20 years to pay and 10 to rot
That's says it's all just a better off forgot

* Refrain