The Great Depression

October bit like cheap gin in the throat
I read the numbers in my fraying coat
Men held their hats like they held their pride
You held my wrist when the crowd surged wide
A storefront radio coughed out jazz
A headline screamed what the country was
But you leaned in close, not quite a kiss
And that was the first crash: Wanting this

This is the Great Depression
The great depression
Where our great dream disappears
This is the Great Depression
The great depression
Where we drown in unshed tears
Great depression, great depression
Here our great illusion fades
Great depression, great depression
I learn what love is worth
When it's taken, not betrayed

We rented Tuesday nights above a bar
One narrow room, one borrowed jar
Of sugar, of hope, of please don't look
Your tie hung neat on a kitchen hook
Outside, the landlord counted what was due
Inside, I counted heartbeats, mine and you
Then Mrs, crowley, always at the rail
Saw you leave too late, saw my face go pale

This is the Great Depression
The great depression
Where our great dream disappears
This is the Great Depression
The great depression
Where we drown in unshed tears
Great depression, great depression
Here our great illusion fades
Great depression, great depression
I learn what love is worth
When it's taken, not betrayed

They'll write it down as banks and bread
As men who jumped, as debts unpaid
They won't write how you fixed my cuff
How friend was never word enough
They won't print the part that made me bleed
That love was there, then illegal need
So I keep you folded in my chest
A quiet headline no one guessed

This is the Great Depression
The great depression
Where our great dream disappears
This is the Great Depression
The great depression
Where we drown in unshed tears
Great depression, great depression
Here our great illusion fades
Great depression, great depression
I learn what love is worth
When it's taken, not betrayed

This is the Great Depression
The great depression
Where our great dream disappears
This is the Great Depression
The great depression
Where we drown in unshed tears
Great depression, great depression
Here our great illusion fades
Great depression, great depression
When it's taken, not betrayed