gone so long
without a trace
everything I had is gone
but this loathsome face
is still with me
spent a good many years
in the belly of a whale
‘cause where I’ve been
off the top of my head
I don’t seem to recall
I came back to see if anything
was worth coming back for
with my four-legged friend but
we don’t see nothing
we ain’t seen before
there’s nothing here anymore

everything and everybody
are much older now
how they all got along
in this desolate town
I’ll just never know
I’ll never know
there’s nothing here anymore

left this town
when the factories closed down
to find my own way
had to grow up
had to see for myself
what was out there
a lot of the earth passed under my feet
before I returned to my roots
before I learned the harshest truth
in the town where I was born
nobody cares anymore