From the recording Footprints
Written by Mike Abbass (c) Big Easy Mountain Music, LLC. Produced/Co-arranged by Mark Caldwell and Mike Abbass. Mike (guitar and vocals); Mark Caldwell (guitar); Linda Styles (vocals); members of the Brothers of Brass: Nate Bitter (trombone, horn charts); Armando Lopez (sax); Matt Rossman (sousaphone, trumpet); Jake Herman (bass drum); Tober Schorr (snare). Recorded at Colorado Sound Studios by Steve Avedis. Mastered by Tom Capek. Video by Erik Fellenstein w/footage by Payden Widner.
Lyrics
Life in a boomtown baby
All the cool kids have found my town
Pave the parks
And put up some buildings
Any color you want
Tan, beige or brown
They just keep comin'
They just keep comin'
Kaa-boom!
Here goes our town
Crowds of people
All around
Takes twice as long to
Get from here to there
Kaa-boom!
Here goes our town
Try not to let it
Get you down
I guess
Everybody's
Got to live somewhere
Life in a boomtown baby
Pushed out the poor folks
To God knows where
All the rough edges we loved so much
Been whitewashed, and made so square
They just keep comin'
They just keep comin'
Kaa-boom!
Here goes our town
Crowds of people
All around
Takes twice as long to
Get from here to there
Kaa-boom!
Here goes our town
Try not to let it
Get you down
I guess
Everybody's
Got to live somewhere
We all liked it
Like it was before
But all the city fathers say is
"more, more, more!"
Life in a boomtown baby
Cut down the trees
Put up some cranes
New states plates
Everywhere like fleas
Cloggin' the streets
And the left lane : >
They just keep comin'
They just keep comin'
Kaa-boom!
Here goes our town
Crowds of people
All around
It takes twice as long to
Get from here to there
Kaa-boom!
Here goes our town
Baby don't ya let it
Get you down
I guess
Everybody's
Got to live somewhere
I guess
Everybody's
Got to live right here
They just keep comin'
They just keep comin'