Michael Jerling
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How Can People Live Like That
c1995 by Michael JerlingFrom the album In Another Life
She shuddered every time She drove that county road Past the worn out farmhouse And the shabby trailer home And now she sees a poor dead deer Hanging from their tree How can people live like that Where the brand new houses Start at two hundred grand She pulls into her driveway In a bright red mini van Punches the security code Then double locks the door How can people live like that She telephones her husband He is still at work These people shooting off their guns Someone will get hurt He says he knows someone in town And he'll put in the word How can people live like that The sheriff's known old Harold Since he was a boy Played football with the oldest boy Who moved to Illinois He shakes Harold's hand and says We've had some complaints How can people live like that Harold's family's lived here For a hundred fifty years Lived off this piece of bottom land The rabbits and the deer Minded his own business And thinks folks should do the same How can people live like that The county widened out the road Gave the old man the push They put a strip mall in his pasture Cut down the sugar bush And the people passing by now Don't give a second look How can people live like that How can people live like that
