Loserville

It’s a monument valley of concrete

On the plain where the styrofoam roams

She hits the trail by the charity store

For the cavern of the mobile phones

She wades ankle deep across wino creek

To the rail where the stagecoach waits

And there should be one in a day or so

If it isn’t running late

’Cause she lives on a reservation

With a baby called “shut up and wait”

And the missionary school by the alehouse

Is teaching him how to hate

In Loserville…Loserville

It’s 15 miles outside of luck

They live on beer and pills

Now she takes him over to grandma’s

Because her cousin gets back tonight

All day he’s been out hunting

And they’re gonna do the thing with the pipe

’Cause her man is a long time missing

He got lost in the firewater fight

Sometimes she hears him when the moon is out

Screaming at the door in the night

In Loserville…Loserville

It’s 15 miles outside of luck

They live on beer and pills

Loserville…Loserville

A couple of lifetimes out of hope

Out there over the hill

It’s the fastest growing false economy

The capital of welfare state

They built a wall around Loserville

But they didn’t build a gate

I spent half my life getting out of this place

It’s everybody’s well-laid plan

You can take the boy out of Loserville

But you can’t take the place from the man

Loserville…Loserville

It’s 15 miles outside of luck

You live on beer and pills

Loserville…Loserville

A couple of lifetimes out of hope

Out there over the hill