Steeltown Lyrics - Steeltown - Big Country

Here I stand with my own kin 

At the end of everything 

finally the dream has gone 

I've nothing left to hang upon 

I came here with all my friends 

Leaving behind the wait of years 

Leaving alone in a flood of tears 

Out on a prospect that never ends 

All the landscape was the mill 

Grim as the reaper with a heart like hell 

With a river of bodies 

Flowing with the bell 

We built it all with our own hands 

But who could know we built on sand 

But now it's barren all to soon 

There's no miracle in ruin 

We set the flame and it burned so blue 

With open eyes I watched it grow 

A sea of palms in an ocean of snow 

Hands with the courage to start anew 

Here was a home for the lost and scared 

Out of the yards and dry docks 

The call of the steel that would never stop 

There was a refuge for those who dared 

In a steeltown 

When the heat's on 

I went down 

And the heat turned on me 

Here I stand with my own kin 

At the end of everything 

finally the dream has gone 

I've nothing left to hang upon 

In a steeltown 

When the heat's on 

I went down 

And the heat turned on me