If I come down from my high horse,
and you come down from your hill
I'll ride up from the valley,
from our place by the mill
The neighborhood's gone quiet
since the good jobs have gone
With the odds against us
stacked a thousand to one
Oh, everything's changing
and new jobs don't pay
Our old street is crumbling,
young ones are moving away
So that's why I called you,
I know you could help
But if you were inclined to,
you could swing it yourself
Please do it for
Gracie, if not for my sake
Back then when she chose me,
maybe she made a mistake
Our memories are pictures with
scissors for thoughts
And the wars that we're fighting are the
wars that we fought
I can't change all that happened
or the words that I said
Taking on every demon,
I was full speed ahead
We should know this isn't like me,
or the man I be came
And if it weren't for my health,
I'd say it's part of the game
Oh, we did have an estate,
treatments took that
And I did have my pride,
but that came off with my cap
If I don't hear from you,
know that I'll understand
I haven't told
Gracie, she knows you're a good man
The neighborhood's gone quiet since
the good jobs went south
Straight through to
China, now it's fingers to mouth
Fin gers, fingers