Bob Seger — Forward Into the Past

[Verse 1] There's a bloodshot moon risin' on the cornfield Since she went away A rusty ax layin' in the barnyard It's seen better days The banks are tellin' him he should sell He's tellin' them to go straight to hell [Verse 2] Everyone is headin' for the city Givin' up on the land Takin' jobs with the big corporations Too tired to make a stand The dusty roads are all empty now The wind and weather have taken 'em all to task [Chorus] The frontier is returnin' Forward into the past [Bridge] From the silent frozen winter The dark and endless night Where the plains stretch out forever In a sea of barren white To the billion dollar merger To bailouts in the east Where currencies are mangled And Wall Street has a feast Independence is outmoded Out of favor, out of sync Abandoned and forgotten Discarded in the blink of an eye [Verse 3] His hometown's nearly empty now Schools and churches too The trains have stopped for a hundred years They just rumble through The trucks stay out on the big highway His whole way of life is fadin' fast [Chorus] The tall grass is returnin' Forward into the past [Outro] Forward into the past Forward into the past Forward into the past Forward into the past