The Belt Cycle Love in the Rust Belt Love in the rust belt Caravans from surrounding areas Fishing towns and college dorms Taking off trousers and filling out forms The new frontier is down and in The new frontier is underground We got solutions liquid and round To correct those emotions you once felt Love in the rust belt Pillows and girders 300 years on whaling vessels We came home to birth an army We learned how to run, we learned how to wrestle The new frontier is down and in The new frontier is underground Can you hear the cauldron sound? Gets hot enough to make infrastructure melt Love in the rust belt 4-hour shifts Grown men learn to live with a shortage Videocameras and books to record it If we don't save we can never afford it The new frontier is down and in The new frontier is underground From Detroit to Virginia mining towns They're peeling off the remnants of winter pelts Love in the rust belt Love in the Sun Belt Love in the sun belt NBA jerseys and retirements homes Low-riders and bags of bones Desert sand and evergreen loam The old frontier is dead on its back The old frontier is dried and cracked Sweating through bras bought with oil money So sunny feels like the Oldsmobile's going to melt Love in the sun belt Dance clubs on weekdays She can't spend the night 'cause she's a nanny For grandfolks who got the kids from Atlanta The bottle so dry I can barely stand up The old frontier is dead on its back The old frontier is dried and cracked Turn the ceiling fan on, baby I'm amazed By the people I meet when crazed heat and beats leave eyes glazed In dance clubs on weekdays She knows someone in movies Her sister made the cover of Maxim Her boyfriend's rich but the feds don't tax him He slings speed at Davis and Jackson The old frontier is dead on its back The old frontier is dried and cracked The sprawling malls and Cadillacs reflect the beauty Of a girl who knows someone in movies Love in the Grain Belt Love in the grain belt Spin the bottle in tornado shelters Farmers' daughters in the hay under moonlight Under the bleachers at the big game Friday night The old frontier has blown away The new frontier is ready for harvest The nation would starve if we put the plow down There's more than cow towns, beer and driving around Love in the grain belt High school athletics We met at the game and went out for sodas Dancing at parties since our mothers drove us Doing things kids on the schoolbus showed us The old frontier has blown away The new frontier is ready for harvest The only lake in twenty counties Drink beer and talk shit about the aesthetics Of high school athletics Heart of the bible belt Corn-fed girls put up resistance They go down easy but they don't go the distance So when they do, don't count on the preacher's assistance The old frontier has blown away The new frontier is ready for harvest Get some money I know a guy in St. Louis He can help us get through this, help us fix what we were dealt In the heart of the bible belt