No Place to Hide

from Someone's Gotta Live in This Town by Matt Garrison and the Robber Barons

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V1
On the crop-dusted, factory-broken-down
Wide, Midwestern streets of a once military town
In the vacant hangers and the happy-hour honky tonks
And by the faceless hangers-on, there’s a church for everyone.

Ch1
And with skies as wide as the eye can see
There is no place to hide in Ford County.

V2
But their eyes aren’t as wide as the skies would have them be
And the roads don’t lead away but turn into the same old streets
Once you’ve lived there long enough you forget about being free
You know it only so well like a map in a foggy dream.

Ch2
And they swear by their step-daddies’ graves this is how it has to be
There is no place to hide in Ford County.

V2
There are spies behind blinds as a neighborhood watches itself
Looking for signs of life finding only statues on shelves
Standing outside saying to themselves, don’t bring us down
We hitched a ride into this life, got dropped off outside of this town.

Ch3
Privately, everybody is waiting to be found
There is no place to hide in Ford County.

V4
Lying in the weeds beside a country muddy creek
In an old barn beyond the fields of winter wheat
In the cab of a truck behind a local grocery
And while no one was looking as walked on down the street.

Ch4
Two young lovers proved beyond a shadow of doubt
There is nothing to do but hide in Ford County.

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from Someone's Gotta Live in This Town, released September 9, 2018

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Matt Garrison: git, vox
Eric Fisher: lead git
Kevin Loseke: accordion, keys, etc.
Andrew Moody: bass
Rob Wills: drums

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