Coming Soon: Everything
Highway 301 winds like a pearl necklace,
connecting sleepy southern towns to one another,
Big City pulls the string; tears it away,
pearls fall down to the ground, roll down the gutter...
Should of known they'd they'd get,
a whiff of us down here,
livin' just beneath their notice,
should've seen the way the winds of change were blowin',
livin' just beneath their noses...
Progress is the new king,
their signs said, "Comin' Soon: Everything!"
just like we were always nothing,
they said, "Coming Soon: Everything!"
The pearls a faded, replaced by chain links,
national chains, and we're all locked in,
another acre, another subdivision,
another mall, another sin!
Progress is the new king,
their signs said, "Comin' Soon: Everything!"
just like we were always nothing,
they said, "Coming Soon: Everything!"
"Build it up!
Reach a little higher!
Get a little higher!
Build it up!
Get it up a little higher!
Build it up! Contract for hire!
Progress is the new king,
their signs said, "Comin' Soon: Everything!"
just like we were always nothing,
they said, "Coming Soon: Everything!"
© 1999 Words and Music by M. Murray/T. Roberts