Ryan Johnson Poet I do not know?

Sideways People

Sideways people living out on the plain
I think they've been dying for a change
sent some men up to try and make a trade
sadly we got nothin they want in exchange

Ethnocentric yankee joe
tryin to find out where people go
when they're done being part of the show
but he can't find what we won't ever know, so

Go out on the water tonight
make yourself pretty, make yourself tight
I never understood what's so good about the light
but that doesn't mean I'm gonna give up the fight

All the country girls they dance and swoon
when mr. money bags comes promisin the moon
always fails to mention that he's leaving soon
that's how it goes when you're riding the boom

They tell you money makes the world go round'
spent a few years just sleepin on the ground 
when the bodies turned up, they sent the hounds 
hopped the next train on the way outta town, so

Go out on the water tonight
make yourself pretty, make yourself tight
I never understood what's so good about the light
but that doesn't mean I'm gonna give up the fight

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