Brown Bird - Ragged Old Town lyrics

She's the dying heart of this ragged old town
She done dug her own grave
In the rocky soil ground
But now she know she ain’t gonna lay
Down until the wolf has gone away
And the hunter comes around
No one knows what's comin' ’round

And in the golden days of the terrorless time
She never needed anybody around tell her how
To keep her worries in line
But now she won't go outside to see
That there ain't no wolf just
A boy in the street howlin' up into the sky
Don't they howl into the sky?

Don't you hear the sound of
Ghosts comin' from the grave?
Don't you do it like we done
When we had our way? There ain’t no knight
No haunted hero gonna save the day
So get off the floor and be
Your own before you wither away

And in the cold dark night
Creakin’ on wood floors and walls
Paralyzed by the fear of the fright
She won't move a muscle at all
She cries, "Oh Lord, come take me away
Stood all I can now I can’t stand to stay
Send ol' Gabriel down
Don't he always come around?"

Don't you hear the sound of
Ghosts comin’ from the grave?
Don't you do it like we done
When we had our way? There ain't no knight
No haunted hero gonna save the day
So get off the floor and be
Your own before you wither away