Lyrics
You're on the Center Street bridge, June twenty-first, '69.
The Goodrich stack is breathing out a ghost against the sky.
You feel the heat rise off the slick, a rainbow made of scum,
And that little gear inside your head, it finally starts to hum.
[Chorus]
A nickel a gallon for Cleveland Crude.
You tell yourself, boy, you got it good, it's finally understood.
[Verse 2]
Got your daddy's empty Prestone jugs behind the furnace grate.
You told that girl from Parma, "Darlin', just you wait."
She laughed and said, "'You're half a fool, but you got a certain grit.'"
The air here smells like a struck match that just can't seem to quit.
[Chorus]
A dime a gallon, you can see it now.
You tell yourself, you'll make it out somehow, take a final bow.
[Bridge]
That river ain't broken, it's just got a different kind of blood.
A beautiful patina, a chemical flood.
[Chorus]
A dollar a gallon, a brand new machine.
You tell yourself this whole damn town is gonna see you're clean.
[Outro]
The sun is coming up on The Flats.
Yeah, tomorrow... you'll show 'em all that.
About Johnny Crawford
Johnny Crawford is from Gary, Indiana, the son of a third-generation Polish-American steelworker. He works the night-shift as a factory maintenance tech, writing songs on his grandfather's cracked 1968 Gibson about the lives of the people he sees every day. His music is a raw, unflinching portrait of the American Rust Belt, carrying the torch of outlaw storytellers like Johnny Cash and Steve…
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