Newtown

Way out where the lightning strikes
Way across the bridge
Some folks get hammered down
And bow to the machine

Some folks can blaze like meteors
Straight across the sky
But some folks
They don't want to get by

Way down
In Newtown
Where the devil makes his bed
All is fair in love and war
But you turn your back instead

You wonder why
The greatest lie
Is comfortable at least
Hiding in the alleys with the bravest of beasts
Hiding in the alleys with the bravest of beasts

Sonny, don't lie to me
Don't you bow your head and cry
Sonny, don't lie to me
I can see it in your eyes

Some folks get lost out here
Some folks drink until they die
Sonny, don't lie to me
Sonny, say
Sonny, say goodbye

Way down in Newtown
Where the souls have left the dead
Somewhere a beggar's song gets stuck inside your head

Gather then the bravest men
To walk upon the wire
Call up all the angels
That they sing in your choir

Sonny, don't lie to me
Don't you bow your head and cry
Sonny, don't lie to me
I can see it in your eyes

Some folks get lost out here
Some folks drink until they die
Sonny, don't lie to me
Sonny, say
Sonny, say goodbye

Wide awake the drug lord takes his profits to his den
Stealing all your words before they flow from your pen