The city where I live was historically a coal mining town. In more recent times, though, there has a problem with addiction and homelessness, tent “cities” springing up, and so on, and the associated problem of petty crime - property damage and theft, etc. Although I have been blessed to have never faced those challenges, in writing the lyrics, I tried to project myself there, and imagine living that life. I wrote from a (hopefully) sympathetic place...more