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by Nana Grizol


                                               
Pushing forward, highway miles are cheaper than in town
                                                                  
If you left something behind, well, try your best not to let it get you down
                                               
The city's full of bullshit, I don't sleep there anymore
                                                         
I don't want it's schmoozy eagerness, I don't want to be it's whore

                                                       
Oh but we, we are so awestruck by the way that things just are
                                  
Like how the sun shines 'till it's night time
                             
We fall asleep to the sound of passing cars

                       
It's that sinking sunken feeling
                                
That you get on the roofs of tall buildings
                                                       
Staring out over the bay or broken cityscapes that make you cry
                                                       
And it's not sad you just don't know how to begin to ask why

                                            
Just a few more cigarettes and I'll come back inside
                       
And do you ever get the feeling
                            
Something somewhere in you is still alive
                                                
And saying "Oh and it's a big life, as big as it can be
                                                  
And if you cannot see the beauty well don't give up so easily
                                                    
And it's a weak-kneed conversation telling your new revelation
                           
To a choir of a more cynical nature

                       
"Being your ego and your id
                                            
The part that swears to you you'll never want kids
                             
The part that drinks away each night
                                          
And in the morning wakes at ten and goes to work

                                        
So let's not be so bitter at least not just yet
                           
I keep meaning to say everything's ok
                       
Well how presumptuous is that?

                       
And sure we all get hurt sometimes
                    
And sure we all feel ashamed
                               
But if our friends can't help us through these things
                           
I don't know what friendship means
                                                    
And I don't know just what it is I'm trying to say