Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Greg Brown
Canonical path: /greg-brown/one-big-town
Related lyric paths: 6
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One Big Town
Read One Big Town lyrics by Greg Brown on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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One Big Town
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Outside money burnt my hometown
Like a moth in a flame
All you got to do is travel around
And you'll see that everywhere it's the same
One big town
We're living in one big town
One big town
We're dying in one big town
World around
We hear the same song, see the same show
Under the shadow of the end--
Fear for our children wherever they may go
As we watch the red, red blood flow again
And it growns unknown like a cancer
All across the fruited plain
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Greg Brown performs "One Big Town", and this lyric page sits inside the Greg Brown catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to Almost Out of Gas and 'Cept You & Me, Babe with a short reason for opening each page next.
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