Great Mid-West

[Verse 1]

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

[Chorus]

And they call this the Great Midwest

Where the cornfields row and flow

They're all five years ahead of their time

Or twenty-five behind, I just don't know

[Verse 2]

And all the young men talk about their four wheel drives

How much money they're gonna make on Friday night

They like to brag about how they mistreat their girlfriends

Hey, let's get drunk, party it up, start a fight

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 3]

Growin' up under normal conditions

Television and radio

That's just about all of this old world

That any of us get to see, get to know

[Chorus]

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

[Bridge]

Don't get me wrong, I ain't complainin'

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

[Verse 4]

Well, I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth

So I can't talk about the big city high life

But if you wanna talk about bein' bored

And runnin' away from yourself

Hell, I can talk to you all night

[Chorus]

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