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Well the roads don't go to Centralia anymore
And the streets were devoured by a fire down below
Well is this the price of progress and the fruits of what we've grown
When the fuel that drives our country's driving people from their homes

Now it started way back in 1962
In a trash heap down an anthracite coal mine
A fire that would last two hundred fifty years
Nature's way to pay us back in kind

Well now nothing could be done to dose the embers underneath
As the poison sauntered gently through the air
What had once been the home of two thousand living souls
Began to crumble into ruin and despair

Then the government came making everybody leave
But a few stayed to haunt the old ghost town
'Cause at forty bucks a ton with millions left untouched
Someone's coming for that fortune underground

Now people went to church there and children went to school
And it was any place across the USA
Do the things in our lives we take for granted
Cost us double when it comes time to pay

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from The Things We Take For Granted, released August 9, 2013

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Silas Lowe Nashville, Tennessee

For a songwriter confronting some of the more unsettling facets of life in contemporary America, Silas Lowe’s songs are highly listenable, witty, and fun. He has entertained crowds at the Kennedy Center, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Northern Lights Boreal Festival, Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion, Vancouver Folk Festival, and numerous other festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada. ... more

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