"Mansion On The Hill" lyrics

"Mansion On The Hill"
(originally by Bruce Springsteen)

There's a place out on the edge of town, sir
Rising above the factories and the fields
Now ever since I was a child, I can remember
That mansion on the hill

In the day, you can see the children playing
On the road that leads to those gates of hardened steel
Steel gates that completely surround, sir
The mansion on the hill

At night, my daddy'd take me and we'd ride
Through the streets of a town so silent and still
Park on a back road along the highway side
Look up at that mansion on the hill

In the summer, all the lights would shine
There'd be music playing, people laughing all the time
Me and my sister, we'd hide out in the tall cornfields
Sit and listen to the mansion on the hill

Tonight down here in Linden Town
I watch the cars rushing by, far from the mill
There's a beautiful full moon rising
Above the mansion on the hill


Writer(s): Simon Edwards, Piers Watson Marsh, Robert Spragg, Jon Delafons, Amde Hamilton, Odie Hawkins, E. Evans, Ed Bereal, John Delafons
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