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Rebuild Our Lives

from Heartland Avenue by Ryan Garrett

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about

A song about climate change and the potential effects that it could have on us all. Inspired by a lot of the severe weather events that were happening back in 2011 when this was released. Not saying it was caused by climate change, but just hypothetically speaking, how worse could it have been? This song is also dedicated in memory of Will Norton.

lyrics

Driving through the heartland, sky fades from blue to green
What does it mean?
Breaks used to be in years, now we're lucky for a week
What does it mean?
What does it mean?
After high school graduation, out the door he ran
With a dream inside his heart and a diploma in his hand
But he never made it home and his dream never came true
Life goes on without a clue

Cause nobody knows the answer
To the questions on our minds
What used to be a matter of caution
Was just a matter of time
A raging beast in the heartland
Monsters fall from the sky
What's always been a matter of where to go
Is now just a matter of how you will survive

They said it'd never hit here, too high up on this hill
Where do we go?
The weatherman predicted wrong, what can we do now?
I wanna know
Where do we go?
Cause the clouds are getting darker, the wind is picking up
The thunder rolls out louder, the rain was not enough
To wash away the sorrows of our brothers who were able
To lay eyes on destruction from an atmosphere unstable

She stands among the wreckage
Torn clothes and shattered dreams
Her midwestern high hopes aren't as strong as they once seemed
He held her neath the cloudy skies
His attitude had changed
His house on Heartland Avenue
Now disarray on the plains
But he knows the sun will shine
Yeah he knows the sun will shine

We'll find the answers
We'll take back whats yours and mine
Somehow we will get through this
Someday we will rebuild our lives

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from Heartland Avenue, released November 1, 2011
Written and composed by Ryan Garrett

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Singer/Songwriter from Russell Springs, Kentucky. All instruments, lyrics, and compositions by Ryan Garrett unless otherwise noted.

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