All Through the City

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A knife tears flesh and then a car rips away
Leaves a body in the alley, another tragedy on the way
and in the burbs the good citizen sleeps safe in the night
never hears the screaming tires, never sees the flashing lights, no

Home from work the next day with the city’s dust on his shoes
He pours himself a drink and then he turns on the news
They’re cryin’ about the victim and singing the inner city blues
He reaches for the remote and thinks there are some who are born to lose

See the city turn See the wounds that burn

Meanwhile down under the neon there’s buddy on the make
He’s lookin’ for someone who’ll give cuz he’s always ready to take
and he hits on a girl who’ll believe whatever he might say
cuz she’s heard the tide roar she’s gonna be swept away

A few hours later she awakes in the squalid yellow dawn
The bed’s all a mess and buddy’s already long gone
She reaches for her cigarettes and she fumbles with her clothes
She’s been fooled again, that’s the only thing she knows

See the city turn See the wounds that burn

All through the city from the edges to the core
Some people lookin’ to hang on, others lookin’ to get more
This town hums like a machine, like a mighty dynamo
Almost drowns out the devil shiftin’ gears down below

In Montreal they got a cross that shines in the sky
Out here there ain’t no place where one could stand that high
Still you gotta be blind not to see the blood drain
From the wounds of the lamb down to these dark streets of pain

See the city turn See the wounds that burn

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from Carlos and the Suspiroes, released December 25, 2014

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