(Glen Ballard & Siedah Garrett)

Main street U.S.A. boarded up and dry

Knowing what once was here just makes me want to cry
Used to be the favorite place, yeah
Now what remains are memories even time cannot erase


Old man Johnson's store, where we grew up too fast
All that remains today are echoes from the past

Used to be a booming town, yeah
Now all that's left is either boarded up or broken down


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Singing, oh ah, oh ah, oh ah, oh
Where we used to belong

There ain't nobody home
Said, oh ah, oh ah, oh ah, oh
You can knock all you want

But, ain't nobody home

Packed up, moved away, running from the past

Leaving behind the dusty dreams and broken glass
Used to be a busy town, yeah
Now everybody passes through, but they don't stick around


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Was a newsstand on the corner
Right next to the barber shop
And down the street there

That's where all the kids would stop
And they would tease the neigbor's bulldog
Laugh and run away

And now there's no one left
Who knows the truth in what you say


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