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My City Was Gone Lyrics

Artist: The Pretenders

I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY CITY WAS GONE
THERE WAS NO TRAIN STATION
THERE WAS NO DOWNTOWN
SOUTH HOWARD HAD DISAPPEARED
ALL MY FAVORITE PLACES
MY CITY HAD BEEN PULLED DOWN
REDUCED TO PARKING SPACES
A, O, WAY TO GO OHIO

WELL I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY FAMILY WAS GONE
I STOOD ON THE BACK PORCH
THERE WAS NOBODY HOME
I WAS STUNNED AND AMAZED
MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
SLOWLY SWIRLED PAST
LIKE THE WIND THROUGH THE TREES
A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO

I WENT BACK TO OHIO
BUT MY PRETTY COUNTRYSIDE
HAD BEEN PAVED DOWN THE MIDDLE
BY A GOVERNMENT THAT HAD NO PRIDE
THE FARMS OF OHIO
HAD BEEN REPLACED BY SHOPPING MALLS
AND MUZAK FILLED THE AIR
FROM SENECA TO CUYAHOGA FALLS
SAID, A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO

Comments/Interpretations

by luna star on 10/27/2008 4:47pm
i love this song and im from ohio so i can really connect she has an amazing

by drumbunny on 12/26/2008 11:42am
The sexiest voice in Rock.

by amannfromMars on 2/3/2009 10:29pm
No interpretation necessary. The words are true; a fait accompli and good morning!

This song is is no drill.

by autisticricki on 2/27/2009 8:53pm
A O Way To Go Strickland!

by DARYL on 9/16/2009 6:57am
RUSH RULES

by dan on 11/27/2009 3:40am
lol rush? maybe if this was a man singing, and a canadian band, and 10 years earlier... otherwise it's THE PRETENDERS sir.

by Neil Peart on 11/30/2009 10:04pm
He's right though. Rush does rule.

by tzah on 1/14/2010 12:09pm
Got to love Chrissy. Remember the Bucket Shop in Highland Square.

by disq on 3/11/2010 2:46pm
Rush (Limbaugh)'s opening song for his radio show.

by zenmove on 9/26/2010 6:29am
Indiana is next.

by Tracy Jimenez on 10/26/2010 2:13pm
This is definitely one of my all time favorites of the 80's. The lyrics and music are hard to beat and it plays real well when working out on the treadmill. The only downside is the truth in what she's referring to.

by Janet on 1/12/2011 4:35pm
Not bad for a one-chord song. A little monotonous, but it shows what you can do.

by Geddy lee on 1/25/2011 11:20am
Not bad but still basically shit

by Geeky Grandma on 4/6/2011 5:59pm
Chrissy hits it!

by dan on 8/29/2011 7:23pm
love her voice

by td on 9/30/2011 9:50pm
LOVE THIS SONG so simple and fun and sad all rolled toether...

by Norm on 9/23/2012 12:50am
I agree WTF do British rockers know about Ohio ??? Nothing I can not connect with !!! I f they were from Rhode Island than i could see them singing about Providence But Liverpool is never Mentioned WTF do Britsh rockers know about Ohio ??????? Im not from Ohio and i NEVER talk about ohio Maybe its just me ? How do you know about Ohio ? Cleevland Browns were good when they had Bernie thats all i know but im not gonna go and sing about him !!!

by Barneymac17 on 10/4/2012 2:17pm
@Norm - Chrissie Hynde is from Ohio

by Christine on 12/28/2012 8:44pm
Chrissy is from Akron, Ohio.

by Chrissy on 3/28/2014 7:06am
People from Ohio these are racist suburbanites, totally lame and despised all around the US.

by Chrissy on 3/28/2014 7:07am
People from Ohio are racist suburbanites, totally lame and despised all around the US. Why are there so many of them in New York City? They should stay home in their white cornfed cul de sacs.

by Marc from Ohio on 5/11/2014 10:15am
Hey Chrissy, you shouldn't generalize about people from a geographical area based on some limited exposure you may have had. As your post clearly shows, closed minded idiots can be found everywhere.

by Bernie Kosar on 5/12/2014 1:19pm
"Chrissie Hynde, originally from Akron, Ohio, moved to London in 1973 ... "

Ever hear of Wikipedia Norm?

by Traynor on 8/30/2015 3:49pm
In Chrissy's ignorant remarks we see the irony of classic projection from someone apparently without a shred of logic or self awareness. In other words, she accuses OTHER people of being exactly what SHE is, but she lacks the basic logic and self awareness (or sanity) to see it for herself. It always blows my mind that people can be so dense as to make blanket statements about groups of people at all, let alone tens of millions of people who are defined merely by an arbitrary line on a map, when any common sense at all would tell them that for so many reasons those statements make zero sense and couldn't possibly be accurate. In Chrissy's twisted mind, it's not ok to supposedly hate someone because of race, but it IS ok to hate someone simply because of where they're from. Idiocy.

by Crash on 10/16/2015 2:24pm
I just read Reckless and had to check out the lyrics to My City Was Gone. She mentions Cuyahoga a few times and it was gnawing at me.