Country Boy's Decay

Verse 1

Dirt paths

Buried under fresh black tar

Gasoline

Stifling the scent of the pines

Concrete

Crowding out my breathing room

Coughing

Red dust turned to gray soot

Chorus

This country boy can't survive

This country boy can't survive

The skyline is a cage

The pavement is a grave

My spirit is dying

Yeah it's dying

Everything I knew is gone

Post-Chorus

Gone away

Fade away

Gone away

Fade away

Verse 2

Grandad

Told me keep the family land

Sold off

For a glass tower and a lot

Iron

Tearing through the creek bed now

Cold steel

Biting where the oak once stood

Sirens

Screaming through my window pane

I hate it

God I really hate it here

Chorus

This country boy can't survive

This country boy can't survive

The skyline is a cage

The pavement is a grave

My spirit is dying

Yeah it's dying

Everything I knew is gone

Post-Chorus

Gone away

Fade away

Gone away

Fade away

Bridge

Country life fades

Country life fades

City life remains

City life remains

The walls are closing in

The noise is getting loud

I can't find the stars

I can't find my way back home

Back home

Back home

I'm lost in the grid

Verse 3

Empty

Checking for a pulse in the mud

Vanished

Like the fog on a July morning

Nowhere

To run from the cameras watching

Nothing

Left but a ghost in a suit

I'm choking

I am absolutely choking out

Chorus

This country boy can't survive

This country boy can't survive

The skyline is a cage

The pavement is a grave

My spirit is dying

Yeah it's dying

Everything I knew is gone

Outro

Fading out

The dirt is gone

The trees are gone

Just the streetlights

Just the concrete

It remains

It remains

It remains

I'm gone