[Verse 1] Her hooves left the road, now beneath the shifting sand She pawed at the ground like she could not understand A water tower stood against the hard and hollow blue It once had a name, now just the rust showing through Dust Town Dust Town is all that remains [Verse 2] I wandered past the old theatre, its letters blown away The place I knew before the devastation of that day The ticket office full of bones the desert carried in A deathly silence where voices had always been Dust Town Old Dust Town Is all that remains [Pre Chorus] My eyes tell me nothing is alive My heart tells me to keep on looking I see a garden amongst all the ashes I close my eyes, hear voices in the wind [Chorus] Dust Town! Dust Town- Burning in my memory Dust Town! Dust Town- A ghost of what you used to be I still see the river running Right through the poisoned ground When I close my eyes, you’re alive Yet when I wake, you’re just a Dust Town Dust Town Oh yeah [Verse 3] The porch still standing, the house lost its face I hitched her on the swing chair (what’s left of it) and walked around the place Your initials once carved on the oakwood, now burned right into stone I ran my fingers over them, just to prove I made it home I see ashes in the doorways, were they people I once knew? The land a blackened wasteland where wildflowers once grew Dust Town Just a desert where grass once stood [Pre Chorus] My eyes tell me nothing is alive My heart tells me to keep on looking I see a garden amongst all the ashes I close my eyes, hear voices in the wind [Chorus] Dust Town! Dust Town- Burning in my memory Dust Town! Dust Town- A ghost of what you used to be I still see the river running Right through the poisoned ground When I close my eyes, you’re alive Yet when I wake, you’re just a Dust Town Dust Town Oh yeah It’s just dust and bones… [Bridge] Then beneath the Townhalls shadow Through a fracture in the stone A single, yellow flower stood Learning how to grow I had no soil or water But said a prayer instead I cleared away the dust around it And rode off to the West [Chorus] Dust Town! Dust Town- Burning in my memory Dust Town! Dust Town- A ghost of what you used to be I still see the river running Right through the poisoned ground When I close my eyes, you’re alive Yet when I wake, you’re just a Dust Town Dust Town Oh yeah [Outro] Behind me, Dust Town faded Like a dream afraid of dawn I couldn’t tell what hurt the most What remained, or what was gone
