Downtown - Owen Temple

WRITTEN BY: OWEN TEMPLE

Downtown’s all closed down
They’ve boarded up the windows
Just like an old ghost town
The storefronts are empty
And there’s no one around
Downtown’s all closed down

A small town in Texas by the courthouse in the square
The middle of the afternoon, there’s nobody there
Well I shook my head and wondered
Where all the businesses had gone
Used to be everything that you’d ever need
Now just the bank’s still holdin’ on

‘Cause downtown’s all closed down
They’ve boarded up the windows
Just like an old ghost town
The streets are all empty
There’s no one around
Downtown’s all closed down

The old drugstore is vacant
And the café’s locked its doors
The movie marquis is falling down
There’s no more hardware stores
So I sat down on a bench
I watched a car go driving by
I wondered what had killed downtown
And how the people could let it die

‘Cause downtown’s all closed down
They’ve boarded up the windows
Just like an old ghost town
The storefronts are empty
There’s no one around
Downtown’s all closed down

The railroad brought the people here
Now the interstate draws them away
It moved the steady business east
Left these old buildings behind to stay
But some folks in town remember
A time not too long ago
When a film called Casablanca
Played at the town square picture show

Now downtown’s all closed down
They’ve boarded up the windows
Just like an old ghost town
The streets are all empty
There’s no one around
Downtown’s all closed down

The streets are all empty
There’s no one around
Downtown’s all closed down