Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Boomtown , by - Greg Brown. Song from the album The Poet Game, in the genre Release date: 14.10.1994
Record label: Red House
Song language: English
Boomtown |
| Here come the artists with their intense faces |
| With their need for money and quiet spaces |
| They leave New York, they leave L.A. |
| Here they are — who knows how long they’ll stay — |
| It’s a Boomtown |
| Got another Boomtown |
| And it’ll boom |
| Just as long as boom has room |
| Here come the tourists with their blank stares |
| With their fanny packs — they are penny millionaires |
| Something interesting happened here long time ago |
| Now where people used to live their lives the restless |
| Come and go |
| Nice to meet you, nice to see you |
| In a sheepskin coat made in Korea |
| Welcome to the new age, the new century |
| Welcome to a town with no real reason to be |
| The rich build sensitive houses and pass their staff around |
| For the rest of us, it’s trailers on the outskirts of town |
| We carry them their coffee, wash their shiny cars |
| Hear all about how lucky we are |
| To be living in a … |
| The guy from California moves in and relaxes |
| The natives have to move — they cannot pay the taxes |
| Santa Fe has had it. |
| Sedona has, too |
| Maybe you’ll be lucky — maybe your town will be the new… |