The cars leave their trails of hot and cold   Light inside my head   Like burned in long exposure pictures   The wheels spin slowly backwards      Strobing in the amber light   And the rain comes down   And washes my brain   But it don't get clean      This town has turned me into what I have become   This town dresses me up like a stranger   This town performs in the window like the ultimate gift   This town takes us down   I feel like I'm losing you to this town      We were saving our money for half of our lives   We were saving our dreams   And we came to this place to make   The chances real in the big city      But I've been counting the days   I've been watching you change   And I can feel it dying   The noise outside takes you in its arms   Like a lamb to a lion      And down there somewhere among the noise   The magazine dolls and the big money boys   Move silently on their easy heels   They move silently on their greasy wheels      This town has turned me into what I have become   This town dresses you up like a stranger   This town hangs around in the doorway and tells me I'm late   This town takes us down, takes us down   I feel like I'm losing you to this town      The morning breaks and I watch you awake   And this town takes you down away from me again