Lyrics

The Cheap Seats (Tani) The profits were up When they shut this place down And 200 folks lost their jobs In this factory town Now they're makin' it cheaper And almost as good In some third world country out there Than we ever could We ain't in the game We ain't on a team We watch from the stands Our American Dream We're watching it all from the cheap seats They sure as hell ain't luxury suites The big screen will show What they want us to know And no matter who loses they win No matter who loses they win When the big box appeared Just outside of town And within a year most of Main St was dead and shut down There were lots of new jobs The new suburban coal mine Had us workin full time Beneath the poverty line We ain't singing the song Ain't even singing along This far from the stage you can't see what's going on We're watching it all from the cheap seats They sure as hell ain't luxury suites The big screen will show What they want us to know And no matter who loses they win No matter who loses they win We never needed to be rich Never thought that we'd be poor Truth lies somewhere in the middle But there's no middle here no more I asked my old man When I was a boy I asked, Dad is our family rich Or are we poor He said “Neither, son” I remember his smile “We're like every one else in this town and the middle's just fine” So, where’d we go wrong What didn’t we see It’s Saturday night In the land of the free We're watching it all from the cheap seats They sure as hell ain’t luxury suites The big screen will show What they want us to know And no matter who loses they win No matter who loses they win