Lordstown, word came down
On a piece of paper passed hand to hand
Lordstown, border town
Gotta get a message to the Mexicans
Lordstown, price of steel
Grind the gears. How does it feel?
Lordstown, no big deal
Whose that man behind the wheel?
Lordstown, Labor Day
No balloons and no parade
Lordstown, Ohio
I won’t say I told you so
“It was fourteen years ago that Diane and I first met in that plant. Now we’ve got two kids and a mortgage on a bungalow that ain’t worth a dime since they shut it down. And I hear that over in Fort Wayne they’re hiring temps instead if those of us who were laid-off here in Lordstown. Oh yeah, life goes on…but this ain’t no Johnny Cougar song. This is my life. And I’ve got just one question: what the hell does ‘unallocated’ even mean?”
Lordstown, word came down
On a piece of paper passed hand to hand
credits
from Victorian Poison,
released October 20, 2022
Words and music by Matthew Hunter, Darin Barney and Hard Red Spring
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