Love Beneath a Concrete Sky

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From iron cage to iron cage, concrete walls and skies and floors
From the trees that never age, and the scrap metal, iron moors
The hustle, the bustle
The endless parades
With blaring horns and roaring engines
and the tyres that squeal
and the children that run
and the dog that barks at your back
the smoke, the ash, the screams, the cries
the little gentleness that cries inside.

Does my rear extend within this gown?
Where did you stick that piece of gum?
Come back! Come back!
And he only laughed
To see the tears flowing back.

The river runs fast and strong, a throng
Of suits and pants dipped in pitch
A million umbrellas stretched out wide
Like the skin upon the wings of a billion bats
Squealing and shrieking through the streets
Nipping and screeching through the night.

U said u <3ed me!
N I lied
Besides,
The ocean is wide

The dark, the dark
The darkness of night
Cowers shivering from the lights
Wrapped in corners
In  shadow deep
Finding a place where it could weep
and hide, hide from the million, billion, trillion lights

The people lost, their bodies writhe
Amassed upon the tower heights
Drowned in noise, covered with smoke
They pretend to be the words they spoke.
Stolen smiles, stolen dreams,
Stolen drinks worth more than any of these
Come here child and say hello
Now let me take you home.

Back to my golden cage my bird,
Where I'll make you sing
And dance, and sleep
Make you regret this night
Even in your dreams.
She smiled back, and said hello
'I won't remember,
Wont remember a thing'
And agreed.