TFT: The Pretenders

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Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world.  For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously fervent rants of rebellion.  Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.

My City Was Gone (Ohio)

The Pretenders

All right Diane

This is a song I wrote about

Mt beautiful hometown

Akron

Ohio

Let’s hear it for Akron

I went back to Ohio

But my city was gone

There was no train station

There was no downtown

Southtown it had disappeared

All my favorite places

My city had been pulled down

Reduced to parking spaces

Hey

Oh

Where did you go

Ohio

I went back to Ohio

But my family was gone

I stood on the back porch

There was nobody home

I was stunned and amazed

My childhood memories

Saw this world past

Like the wind through the trees

I Said

Hey

Oh

Where did you go

Ohio

I went back to Ohio

But my pretty countryside

Had been paved down the middle

By a government that had no pride

The farms of Ohio

Had been replaced by shopping malls

And Muzak filled the air

From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls

I Said

Hey

Oh

Where did you go

Ohio

Where did you go

Ohio

Back On The Chain Gang

The Pretenders

I found a picture of you

Oh oh oh oh

What hijacked my world that night

To a place in the past

We've been cast out of

Oh oh oh oh

Now we're back in the fight

We're back on the train

Yeah

Oh

Back on the chain gang

A circumstance beyond our control

Oh oh oh oh

The phone

The TV

And the News of the World

Got in the house like a pigeon from Hell

Oh oh oh oh

Threw sand in our eyes

And descended like flies

Put us back on the train

Yeah

Oh

Back on the chain gang

The powers that be

That force us to live like we do

Bring me to my knees

When I see what they've done to you

But I'll die as I stand here today

Knowing that deep in my heart

They'll fall to ruin one day

For making us part

I found a picture of you

Oh oh oh oh

Those were the happiest days of my life

Like a break in the battle

Was your part

Oh oh oh oh

In the wretched life of a lonely heart

Now we're back on the train

Yeah

Oh

Back on the chain gang

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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