special guest: a cricket

Light seems to shine
Music seems to play
You can get lost in the tarted up decay
Broken glass on concrete
The special of the day
Trucking grass down oil streets
Nothing can survive this way
Nothing can survive this way

Chorus   Floating on a pool of gasoline
             A city is a dead thing
             Kept afloat by misery unseen
             A city is a dead thing
             Corporation billboard
             Promises the good life
             But if your mind were free
             Then you could see
             A city is a dead thing
             A city is a dead thing

Briefcase & Badge
Kicked you off the land
A neighbour you knew tears the cap out of your hand
Shit Creek runs through here
Flows to petro-field
You're stranded at Low and Nowhere
No choice but to sell or steal
No choice but to sell or steal

Chorus   Floating on a pool of gasoline
             A city is a dead thing
             Kept afloat by misery unseen
             A city is a dead thing
             Sleep beneath the billboard
             Promising the good life
             But if your mind were free
             Then you could see
             A city is a dead thing
             A city is a dead thing

Atomized
Denaturalized
Plastic, steel and neon are worth more than the sky
Death spreads to the countryside
Necrotized to feed the endless lie

Chorus   Floating on a pool of gasoline
             A city is a dead thing
             Kept afloat by misery unseen
             A city is a dead thing
             Corporation billboard
             Promises the good life
             But if your mind were free
             Then you could see
             A city is a dead thing
             A city is a dead thing

But if your mind were free...

© 2011 John Newlands

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