Wayne Orr

Writer 🕹️ Poet 🕹️ Lyricist


“Ghost Town Heartache”(Country Pop Ballad)

[Verse 1]
Under Big Sky’s faded blue,
boardwalks whisper stories no one knew.
Silver dreams turned to rust and rain,
now the coyotes cry through the canyon’s veins.

[Pre-Chorus]
A lonesome whistle in the pines,
a widow’s sigh where the goldmines died.
Every nail, every crack in the paint—
this old ghost town’s got a heart that ain’t saints.

[Chorus]
Oh, Virginia, you’re a ghost in my bones,
a dusty jukebox of shattered hope.
The saloon lights died, but the stars still glow—
you’re whiskey on the wind I can’t let go.
Ah-ah-ah, Virginia…

[Verse 2]
The piano’s keys lost their fight,
but the moon strums a tune in the dead of night.
Boots still march where the miners fell,
echoes of “easy money” down a dry-storm well.

[Pre-Chorus]
The mountains laugh at our foolish pride,
time’s just a thief with a slower ride.
A faded sign says “Heaven’s Near”…
but Heaven’s just the silence here.

[Chorus]
Oh, Virginia, you’re a ghost in my bones,
a neon cross where the wild west roams.
The church bell’s mute, but the wind still moans—
you’re a love I buried under cold river stones.
Ah-ah-ah, Virginia…

[Bridge]
I’ll pour one out on the grave of the past,
let the rattlesnakes keep what we couldn’t grasp.
A town full of souls, now just tumbleweed—
livin’ and leavin’’s the same damn disease.

[Outro]
(Whispered)
Virginia, oh Virginia…
your ghosts dance in my rearview light.
Ain’t no silver, ain’t no gold worth the fight—
just a broken town and a lonesome night.
Ah-ah-ah…

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