Down To Bone

3 years ago I bought a book at a garage sale called “Journey To Nowhere”.  It was written in 1985 and described the plight of thousands of disenfranchised workers left impoverished by the closing of old school steel mills, iron factories, & auto plants in Midwest towns like Flint Michigan and Youngstown Ohio. These were people who had played by the rules all their lives and come up empty.  As I was reading it, I realized that this same thing was happening again now – the transitions, the joblessness, the homelessness – only this time it was white collar unemployment.  So I wrote this song.