Well the whole town came out to watch the day they paved the parking lot
Somebody hung a ribbon up and then they cut it down.
And that big white rose up on that sign was the innocence in all our lives
But now there's plywood for glass, where the windows all got smashed
And there's just a chunk of concrete where those old pumps used to stand.
There's a couple of cars half out of the ground, an oil sign still spins 'round and 'round
But I guess a White Rose filling station is just a memory now.
And the girls would spend a couple of bucks just to meet the boys working at the pumps
And the neon sign was the heart and soul of this old one-horse town
And it's like it lost its will to live the day they shut it down.
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