Midwestern Blues
There's a line running around the corner
since the evening paper laid on my doorstep
three hundred hungry mouths
waiting all night long to find out what's up
Because in the middle I've been waiting
for you to come to save me
lying in the best of it I'm not so sure
so if it's alright with you
I'm gonna pick up and move
from the midwestern blues
well they've got me down
I've got another chance
I'm moving out of town
the midwestern blues well they shot me down
I've got another chance I'm gonna take it
Ten years ago I knew you were waiting for me
down and bound again
I didn't want to work where my father did
He didn't want to see me either
working for the man that teased her
Hey ma you gotta understand
there's more to this promise land
Hey ma you gotta understand
it's not you
it's the midwestern blues
it's the midwestern blues
The midwestern blues well they got me down
I've got another chance I'm gonna take it
got another mind and healing for it
got another time and season for it
got another song and I'm gonna sing it
for the midwestern blues
well they shot me down
got another chance I'm gonna take it to you
Son you're dreaming
Ma if I'm dreaming
Just don't you wake me