We walk at the paths at the banks of the mighty Susquehanna,
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with our feet made muddy by your tributaries
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that trickle their way to the Chesapeake
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It's like we
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follow I-83 down to harbor cities
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with strip malls and tar-mac,
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people swirling and teeming
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It seemed so exciting
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but now it seems like such a blight
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I grew up near Kentucky's Mount Zion Road
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and all that was there was some old cemetery
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All I wanted:
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to be able to walk to the store
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Now I don't live there but there's too many stores,
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some apartments,
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and a Sunoco
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And I wonder, what do they do with the bodies?
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And I wonder, what do they do with the bodies?
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Oh, Susquehanna!
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Oh, Susquehanna!
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(We can walk most anywhere without getting anywhere)
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Oh, Susquehanna!
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(We can walk most anywhere without getting anywhere)
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Oh, Susquehanna!
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(We can walk most anywhere without getting anywhere)
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And I miss that place behind my house
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where I hiked and climbed and played
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Where I ditched this noisy century
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or just hid out
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from the decade
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MI Homes thought it could
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stand to be updated
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Forced it all into a grid 'til it looked like the funny pages
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With every trace of life, it seems,
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confined within a frame
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The faces moved from day to day but
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the strips all looked the same
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And the punch lines are resoundingly unfunny
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for those trapped in this architecture of easy money
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And I feel like this could all come to no good
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The kids who
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populate these cul-de-sacs
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will never know what stood beneath those
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cookie-cutter houses:
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fields and streams and woods
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They'll sit in cars and wait for
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mom to drive them
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out of this boring neighborhood!
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Oh, Susquehanna!
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Oh, Susquehanna!
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(We can walk most anywhere without getting anywhere)
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Oh, Susquehanna!
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(We can walk most anywhere without getting anywhere)
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Oh, Susquehanna!
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(We can walk most anywhere without getting anywhere)
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And I wonder, what do they do with the bodies?
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And I wonder,
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what do they do with the bodies?
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Oh, Susquehanna!
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| Defiance, Ohio |
