You're born in debt

And you're never free

You work all your life

For the company

And the smoke pours down on your Mercury

As the paint chips off your walls

The slag cars roll to the heap side

Down the slope flows a hellfire slide

And the kids grow up too fast inside

Then they're spittin' in the high school halls



It's a hard rock town

It's a hard rock town

It'll grind you down

It's a hard rock town



Smoke blows up and slowly west

Black as the suit that's always pressed

When the funeral wagon calls

Chevs and Fords on Saturday nights

Blastin' past the hotel lights

Laugh in the face of the day that might come

When the rocks should rumble and fall



It's a hard rock town

It's a hard rock town

It'll grind you down

It's a hard rock town



Is there a world like on T.V.

Where people look better than you and me

If there is it might as well be

Far beyond the sun

Lovers break each other's hearts

Beautiful people walk in the park

No one coughs in the morning dark

Nobody is no one



It's a hard rock town

It's a hard rock town

It'll grind you down

It's a hard rock town