John Mellencamp The Great Midwest Lyrics

The Great Midwest Lyrics

Everything is slower here, everybody's got a union card

They get up on
Sunday and go to church of their choice

Come back home cook out in the
backyard



Chorus:

And they call this the Great Midwest

Where
the cornfields  row and flow

They're all 5 years ahead of their time

Or
25 behind, I just don't know



All the young men talk about their 4 wheel
drives

And how much money they're gonna make on Friday night

And, they
like to brag about how they mistreat their girlfriends

Hey, let's get
drunk, party it up, start a fight



Chorus II:

And they call this
the Great Midwest

Sure make a hell of a car

And the old hearts, they
race their way through the night

The upheaval of who they really
are



Growin' up under normal conditions, television and
radio

That's just about all of this whole world

That any of us get to
see, get to know



Chorus III:

And they call this the Great
Midwest

Where you sacrifice your body and soul

And no one really wants
to get even

Most of us find it hard enough just lettin'
go



Bridge:

Don't get me wrong I ain't complaining

I ain't
braggin' nor do I mean to place blame

That's just the way things are around
here

And there's a future carryin' my name on it

Sayin' hey man, you
gonna stick around here you better get on it

If you're gonna stick around
here you better make yourself some real good friends



Well I wasn't
born with a silver spoon in my mouth

So I can't talk about the big city
life

But if you wanna talk about bein' bored and runnin'

	away from
yourself, hell I talk to you all night



Chorus IV:

And they call
this the Great Midwest

Where livin' is just gettin' by

And people trade
in their happiness

For a smokestack, a big money deal in the
sky