Even The Ghosts Left Town

On the borderline
Neath the Texas sky
There's a desert shrine
To the prime of the last oil rush
Where dreams turned to dust
When the boom gave way to bust
Now it's all just rusted steel
In that open field man it's an eerie feel
When silence is the only sound

And there's no water in the tower
No whiskey in the bars
There's no praying in the church house
And no danger in the dark
They boarded up them windows
When they capped off all the wells
Now the devil don't come around no more
Cause there ain't a soul to sell
Since the price at the pump went down
Even the ghosts left town

Well it was riding high
Until '09
You shoulda seen it shine
Like a diamond on the high plains
Full of Cadillacs
Roughnecks and the pumpjacks
Filling every bankroll
Was a steady flow of black gold
Coming right out of the ground
But now the state went and shut the exit down

Cause there's no water in the tower
No whiskey in the bars
There's no praying in the church house
And no danger in the dark
They boarded up them windows
When they capped off all the wells
Now the devil don't come around no more
Cause there ain't a soul to sell
Since the price at the pump went down
Even the ghosts left town

Only history
And tumbleweeds
Haunt these streets

Cause there's no water in the tower
No whiskey in the bars
There's no praying in the church house
No danger in the dark
They boarded up them windows
When they capped off all the wells
Now the devil don't come around no more
Cause there ain't a soul to sell
Yeah since the price at the pump went down
Even the ghosts left town