No strangers in this town   No one moves without making a sound   You live and die within the borders and lines   No one dies without paying their fines      No lovers in this town   The moon's full but it sure ain't round   And just because you lie in his bed   Don't mean you meant the things you said      They marry young in these parts   They work the factories   So I ran as fast as I could   Through the tall grass and the midnight woods   So nobody would sing some bible song over me      My cousin died in his sleep   Forty pills, two kids to keep   And how will she explain to those kids   About the sorry thing Daddy did?      They marry young in these parts   They raise their kids and set them free   So I ran as fast as I could   Through the tall grass and the midnight woods   So nobody would sing some bible song over me      They buried him out in the cold   He was only twenty-four years old   How his mother came undone   When the choir sang hallelujah      I ran as fast as I could   Through the tall grass   And and the midnight woods   I ran as fast as I could   Through the tall grass   And and the midnight woods      Hallelujah, hallelujah, ahhh   Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah   Hallelujah, hallelujah   Hallelujah