Whirlwind

[Verse 1]

Every city got an artery where the blood breaks down

An avenue or a boulevard and a boy who wears a crown

Indigent lifestyles imply lack of means

Dogmatical authoritarians dictate the city's remains

[Chorus]

Oh, a promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight, no

Whirlwind is coming

Whirlwind is coming

A promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight

Whirlwind is coming down on me

[Verse 2]

When the factory shut down, so did the place he lived

Blood money for junk bonds by a white collar fugitive

All the tax free incentives ain't going to help him now

Five generations of job security gone out like the horse and plow

[Chorus]

Oh, a promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight, no

Whirlwind is coming

Whirlwind is coming

A promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight

Whirlwind is coming down on me

[Verse 3]

My old man worked his troubled life in a nowhere dead end job

He drank the pain away, I'll be damned if that's me having my dreams robbed

The working class carries a country that has been rotting inside for years

The pigs cuffed my old man in the front yard, I saw through eyes of tears

[Chorus]

Whirlwind is coming

Whirlwind is coming

A promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight

Whirlwind is coming down on me