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CAN’T GO HOME ©2008 Jefferson Pepper, American Fallout.com

There was sunshine and skies of blue, majestic mountains, a mystic moon / Sultry breezes and gentle rains and herds of buffalo on the fertile plains / You can’t go home, you can’t go home, ‘cause it ain’t there no more / Verdant valleys and running streams, eagles soaring above the trees / Changes blowing on the wind, time is a river, it won’t flow back again / You can’t go home, you can’t go home, ‘cause it ain’t there no more / Native brothers living on the land, working together hand in hand / The land of their fathers, the land of their sons, all held in common, enough for everyone / You can’t go home, you can’t go home, ‘cause it ain’t there no more / There were mansions and soldiers’ graves, the wheels of progress on roads of slaves / And there were empires and there was greed and fear and hatred fueled war machines / You can’t go home, you can’t go home, ‘cause it ain’t there no more / Now the hum of generators and artificial lights, You hear them switching off again as day turns into night / Live the good old days through a dreamy haze as you wake and come around in your little concrete shelter seven stories underground / You miss your family and you miss your friends, your heart’s lacerations will never mend / Dire circumstances, that first attack, No second chances, no going back / You can’t go home, you can’t go home, ‘cause it ain’t there no more / Up on the surface no signs of life, You’ve got your government issued rations and wife / It’s the law of nature, the strongest survive, And it’s just fate you’re the last alive / You can’t go home, you can’t go home, ‘cause it ain’t there no more