The Hollywood Squares Ashes And Dust Lyrics

This town, it looks so tired
Stood here a long, long time
Progress took another road
And left the old, their faces lined
With all the cares of many years
Seeing off their children with their tears
Waiting to die.

A tolling of the church bell
A life's story to tell
Of times of peace and war
The sorrows and the joys.
The priest harangues the living
Speaks of an all-forgiving God
While the immortal soul
Heads for its lifetime's goal of ashes and dust.

The darkened windows hide
The gaze of those who tried
Who struggled all their lives
For some elusive prize.
But now they know at last
The time for struggle's past
And they await their graves
Knowing that their dreams were made of ashes and dust.