Ghost Town Blues Lyrics - Prefab Sprout

Sitting alone when her work is through 

These days she's listless though that spring sky is blue 

Her parents try but it's not much use 

Her boyfriend left home, it was late summertime 

Life was good, they were young but glory is purblind 

How could a future like that go wrong? 

I know the mayor of this hysterical town 

He worked himself up from the dirt on the ground 

Now everyone asks him questions and so on 

People consider they've a right to be told 

He just can't imagine what it is he should know 

People naturally wonder what it's all leading to 

Oh, Anne Garland, you can't call this heartbeat a man 

Too sad you bet, we're all caught in history's web 

But don't cry too soon, you might as well fall in love with the moon 

Oh, Anne Garland, we win or we lose at his hand 

Cars collide and they kill the groom 

Death's neatly spruced for his honeymoon 

Find an answer while I leave the room 

Man made the neon and he learned how to fly 

But Gold made the stars while he fashioned the sky 

Perhaps I should learn to shut my mouth