Walking alone in a blistering rain
Trouble and terror blistering the brain
What used to be home, now foreign and weird
Into the mind these images seared
The place where I grew and the place where I learned
Inside of my heart my hometown has burned
Appalachian State and all of its size
Killing the mountain and stealing the prize
Progress and numbers and money galore
The peace of the mountains, this peace is no more
Under the veil of false knowledge, the money machine grows
Who's really learning, nobody knows
Mountaineer locals all fade away
To thousands of kids whose parents will pay
So home is no more as progress is made
The green disappears as the pavement is laid
Another town dead that looks so alive
Not to this boy and not through these eyes
