"My Kind Of Town"

Of all the post-apocalyptic visions I have encountered, this is by far my favourite! This song can be found on an album called Alien Sun, written by Red Hunter.
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THE FALL

A million tents and trailers will cover the open desert
Your kids will learn again how to build a fire
Where to look for water
And the families are bound together now
By the fall of all the great cities
Finally they sing out their stories and their histories
Of hunger and of victories

Back in the old gypsy circles
Where the swaying girls will play out the old rituals
The boys will be delirious, but desperate and serious
The chasing will be furious
The drums in the rain will come together howling
The cities are all lost, but the circle is found

And it will tie us together--oooh, my kind of town

Who were you before the fall
I was a singer, saw the future laid out in dominoes
Now I hunt the buffaloes
And my darlin' who were you behind the counter
With the day memorized and those cold, vacant eyes
Well you swore you were free, swore you could see him coming
Old Angel Midnight staring you down
He's stealing the water right out of the ground

And the news is all true, but the views are unsound
The market is dead, and the phone lines are down

But it ties us together--oooh, my kind of town


Red Hunter is an experimental musician and songwriter who resides in Austin, TX. The title and theme could come from the Albert Camus book of the same title. "Old Angel Midnight" is a reference to one of Jack Kerouac's automatic writing experiments, in which he wrote under a chemically induced state as an exercise in freeing his imagination.