West End

There's a gas station
Convenient Mart running a sale
On Coors Light Beer
A shabby ma & pa car lot
Advertising buy here pay here
In the strip mall on the corner
There's only Ace pawn shop and video store
Get your title loans up the way
Or cash advance on your next pay
In a winter coat and baggy brown pants
An old man walks up the street
Garbage bag over his shoulder
He must be boiling in this July heat
A worn cap sets above weary eyes
Scrounging change for an order of fries
Looks for a place to get in the shade
Sip on a small cup of lemonade
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Here on the west end
Not much worth saving anymore
Here on the West end
Just a ghost of what was before
Left like a used-up lover
For a pretty new girlfriend
Here on the West end
A young girl with greasy
brown hair slicked back
leans into a red corvette
Out behind the laundry mat
In a short shirt and cut off sweats
Showing a pale doe boy belly
And a tattoo on her lower back
She takes something from the driver’s hand
Opens the door and climbs in
Chorus:
The Victorian at Maple and 10th
Has a sign in its yard - room for rent
Peeking out from the house next door
blue lights splatter her face
as a man is cuffed and drug from the porch
Sirens wail with the wind chimes
She just turns away
and closes the blinds
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