Defiance, Ohio - Oh! Susquehanna lyrics
[Defiance, Ohio - Oh! Susquehanna lyrics]
We walk at the paths at the
Banks of the mighty Susquehanna
With our feet made muddy by your tributaries
That trickle their way to the Chesapeake
It's like we follow I83 down to harbor
Cities with strip malls and tarmac
People swirling and teeming
It seemed so exciting
But now it seems like such a blight
I grew up near Kentucky's Mt zion Road
And all that was there was some old cemetery
All I wanted to be able to walk to the store
Now I don't live there, but there's
Too many stores, some apartments
And a Sunoco
And I wonder
What did they do with the bodies?
And I wonder
What did they do with the bodies?
Oh, Susquehanna oh, Susquehanna
(We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
Oh, Susquehanna (We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
Oh, Susquehanna (We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
And I miss that place behind my house
Where I hiked and climbed and played
Where I ditched this noisy century or
Just hid out from the decade m
I Homes thought it could stand to be updated
Forced it all into a grid 'til
It looked like the funny pages
With every trace of life, it seems
Confined within a frame
The faces move from day to day
But the strips all look the same
And the punchlines are resoundingly unfunny
For those trapped in this
Architecture of easy money
And I feel like this could
All come to no good
The kids who populate these cul-de-sacs
Will never know what stood
Beneath their cookie-cutter houses
Fields and streams and woods
They'll sit in cars and wait for mom to
Drive them out of this boring neighborhood
Oh, Susquehanna oh, Susquehanna
(We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
Oh, Susquehanna (We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
Oh, Susquehanna (We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
And I wonder
What did they do with the bodies?
And I wonder
What did they do with the bodies?
Banks of the mighty Susquehanna
With our feet made muddy by your tributaries
That trickle their way to the Chesapeake
It's like we follow I83 down to harbor
Cities with strip malls and tarmac
People swirling and teeming
It seemed so exciting
But now it seems like such a blight
I grew up near Kentucky's Mt zion Road
And all that was there was some old cemetery
All I wanted to be able to walk to the store
Now I don't live there, but there's
Too many stores, some apartments
And a Sunoco
And I wonder
What did they do with the bodies?
And I wonder
What did they do with the bodies?
Oh, Susquehanna oh, Susquehanna
(We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
Oh, Susquehanna (We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
Oh, Susquehanna (We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
And I miss that place behind my house
Where I hiked and climbed and played
Where I ditched this noisy century or
Just hid out from the decade m
I Homes thought it could stand to be updated
Forced it all into a grid 'til
It looked like the funny pages
With every trace of life, it seems
Confined within a frame
The faces move from day to day
But the strips all look the same
And the punchlines are resoundingly unfunny
For those trapped in this
Architecture of easy money
And I feel like this could
All come to no good
The kids who populate these cul-de-sacs
Will never know what stood
Beneath their cookie-cutter houses
Fields and streams and woods
They'll sit in cars and wait for mom to
Drive them out of this boring neighborhood
Oh, Susquehanna oh, Susquehanna
(We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
Oh, Susquehanna (We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
Oh, Susquehanna (We can walk 'most anywhere
But we aren't getting anywhere)
And I wonder
What did they do with the bodies?
And I wonder
What did they do with the bodies?