Name: Dust On The Floor
Duration: 3 min 51 s
Channel: Herb Hartley
Description: "Dust On The Floor" is a song by Upper Room. A song about the demise of small towns

Dust On The Floor

Upper Room

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A song about the demise of small towns

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Upper Room

Christian country rock

Welcome to my site. I have posted a bunch of songs on this site. I hope you enjoy listening. Most of these songs are either Country or Jazz, but there are exceptions...but all are family friendly. My influences are the country rockers of the 70's & 80's. In addition, I have influences in other genre's of music as well, but I really like the beat, and harmonies present in Country Rock. So sit back and enjoy.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Christian Country

Charts

Peak #1

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Herb Hartley

Rights

2015

Uploaded

January 09, 2015

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.4 MB • 160 kbps • 3:51

Story behind the song

Observations from life

Lyrics

Down on the corner of Chestnut and Main
A vacant old store front is all that remains
There's tape on the windows and an old weathered sign
The shoppers are gone now...   empty shelves left behind

The old men played checkers in the park by the    tree
Shade that is gone now, for all eternity
A padlock is rusting as it hangs on the door
Sunlight casting shadows, that glide across the floor. 

The small towns are dying, No one shops here anymore
Grass growing in the sidewalk, that leads past the door
Paint, cracked and peeling ...and there's two things for sure
Ghosts haunt the shadows, and there's dust on the floor

A new shiny big box in the town up the road
Is selling those flat screens, by the semi-truck load
Mom & Pop Johnson, just couldn't compete
So they padlocked the front door and turned in the keys.