Bruce Donnola: Music

• MP3 short clip, hi-fi play (broadband)

USA in the western states
In a pick-up Ford
Wyoming plates
Hear the wind whistle by
See the road come alive
Route 84
Doing 85

CHORUS:
Beneath the big-big sky
Numbers don't mean much
You shift from 3rd to 4th
And then you pop the clutch
From one town to the next
It's 20 miles between
And every sign you see says
Population 13

Getting 'round about noon
In the summer light
It's 110 in the shade
There's no shade in sight
All the desert plain is swimming in the heat
And the skin on your back
Is sticking to the seat

CHORUS

In a deserted landscape
There's only 1 way to go
When all you get is static
On the radio
Well, crank the volume high
And crack another beer
And take that long black stripe
On out of here

CHORUS:
Beneath the big-big sky
Numbers don't mean much
You shift from 3rd to 4th
And then you pop the clutch
From one town to the next
It's 20 miles between
And every sign you see says
Population 13

When you look at the sign
You think to yourself
If somebody dies
Do they change it to 12?
Or if a baby's born
Do they wipe the slate clean
And make every sign say
Population 14
Population 14
Population 14