there s a place out on the edge of town sir rising above the factories and fields now ever since i was a child i can remember that mansion on the hill in the day you can see the children playing on a road that leads to those gates of hardened steel steel gates that completely surround sir that mansion on the hill at night my daddy d take me and we d ride through the streets of a town so silent and still park on a back road along the highway signs sir look up at the mansion on the hill in the summer all the lights would shine there d be music playing people laughing all the time me and my brother we d lie down in the tall cornfields sir sit and listen to the mansion on the hill tonight down here in linden town i watch the cars rushing by home from the mill there s a beautiful full moon rising above the mansion on the hill
['country rock', 'folk', 'folk rock', 'lilith', 'melancholia', 'mellow gold', 'roots rock', 'singer-songwriter']