The Midwest Fall

Listen to the wind

Lonesome is the sound

Blowing in changes and breaking through this town

Listen to the heartbeat, heartland's barely breathing

Hope and faith are still alive

But jobs are steady leaving

It chills me to the bone

Brings a tear to my eye

Like the last days of summer gone

It's hard to watch a good thing die

In the days of my youth

there was dancing in the streets

Ford was building motorcars and folks were building dreams

'Round the clock, day and night

Working hard's a way of life

As I recall

It chills me to the bone

Brings a tear to my eye

Like the last days of summer gone

It's hard to watch a good thing die

It's the midwest fall

Blue collar life

Staring at December

Dreaming about July

The midwest fall

Dreams get blown away

It's hard to take the midwest fall

My grandpa was a union man

My daddy watched it burn

We never had a lot

We lived off what we earned

We built the cars and tanks that helped to keep our nation free

And now I can't afford to feed my family

It chills me to the bone

Brings a tear to my eye

Like the last days of summer gone

It's hard to watch a good thing die

It's the midwest fall

Blue collar life

Staring at December

Dreaming about July

The midwest fall

Dreams get blown away

It's hard to take the midwest fall

Oh, yeah

Oh

I can't pay my taxes, Lord

I can't afford to feed my kids

I guess I'll stay and ride it out

Because you are so beautiful

The midwest fall

Blue collar life

Staring at December

Dreaming about July

The midwest fall

Dreams get blown away

It's hard to take

The midwest fall

Uh, don't go away

The midwest fall

Dreamin', dreamin'

The midwest fall

Ah, don't go away

It's hard to take

Please, don't go away

You are so beautiful

The midwest fall

The midwest fall

The midwest fall

The midwest fall