The night stank of diesel   A stranger came to town   A cold wind blowing   And the rain pouring down      Street lights flicker   And the power lines moan   The moon beat down   On a river of bone      Someone put the lights out   No one make a sound   You won't find a thing   Down in Oretown      Foundry spits fire and smoke   Air's foul and choking   Sky is full of sulphur   Hills flat and broken      Black fogs and whirlwinds   The thunder and rain   Open drink madness   Purple mad pain      The circus is over   Exit the clowns   Nobody's laughing   Down in Oretown      The ship's in the harbor   Cargo's been pawned   Barrooms spilling sailors   All shipwrecked at dawn      Smelling of salt and rust   Uniform's torn   Came looking for flowers   Only found thorns      Dreaming of mermaids   In pearly white gowns   Captain is sleeping   Down in Oretown      There's a man down on mainstreet   Eyes all aflame   Laughing in the thunder   Of the Number 9 train      Selling old postcards in rusty frames   A thousand views of Oretown   And they all look the same      Dressed up in sandals   A barbed wire crown   A lot of people lost their minds   Down in Oretown      Lock up the lawman   Let go the thief   Round up the grey men   Nail them to a tree      This town was a palace   This town was aglow   Well, the sky burned orange   And the iron river flowed      The night stank of diesel   A stranger came to town   The night folded over   Down in Oretown