歌曲名 Great Midwest 歌手名 John Mellencamp

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Everything is slower here

Everybody's got a union card

They get up on Sunday

Go to church of their choice

Come back home

Cook out in the backyard

And they call this the Great Midwest

Where the cornfields grow and flow

They're all 5 years ahead of their time

Or 25 behind I just don't know

And all the young men talk

About their 4 wheel drives

How much money

They're gonna make on Friday night

And they like to brag about

How they mistreat their girlfriends

Hey let's get drunk

Party it up start a fight

And they call this the Great Midwest

Sure make a hell of a car

And the old hearts

They race their way through the night

The upheaval of who they really are

Growin' up under normal conditions

Television and radio

That's just about all of this whole world

That any of us get to see

Get to know

And they call this the Great Midwest

Where you sacrifice body and soul

No one really wants to get even

Most of us find it hard enough

Just lettin' go

Don't get me wrong

I ain't complaining

I ain't braggin'

Nor do I mean to place blame

That's just the way things are around here

And there's a future carryin'

My name on it

Sayin' hey man

You gonna stick around here

You better get on it

If you're gonna stick around here

You better make yourself

Some real good friends

Well I wasn't born with a silver

Spoon in my mouth

So I can't talk about the big city hi-life

You wanna talk about bein'

Bored and runnin'

Away from yourself hell

I can talk to you all night

And they call this the Great Midwest

Where livin' is just gettin' by

And people

They trade in their happiness

For a smokestack

A big money deal in the sky