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Chicago at Night Lyrics
Now when she went to Chicago that night, she faced the wall
And she woke up outside with all those leaves in her mouth and felt the pall
And all night the rain came on down
But then she'd never been to Chicago at night before the fall
And it don't stop, not at all
It falls all around in the city, hits the ground
And now everybody's at disadvantage
Speaking with their second language
And she'd never been there before they went and set up the wall
And though nobody expected much from this reinvention
She still broke right down after all
Because she knew that it was all over and we'd hit a wall
And like the fall, this was all
Now it's all around - in the city, on the ground
And now everybody's at disadvantage
Speaking with their second language
And I never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
And she woke up outside with all those leaves in her mouth and felt the pall
And all night the rain came on down
But then she'd never been to Chicago at night before the fall
And it don't stop, not at all
It falls all around in the city, hits the ground
Speaking with their second language
And though nobody expected much from this reinvention
She still broke right down after all
Because she knew that it was all over and we'd hit a wall
And like the fall, this was all
Now it's all around - in the city, on the ground
Speaking with their second language
Never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
Never been to the wall
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I'm not sure about the meaning, but the imagery in this song is great. "She woke up outside with all those leaves in her mouth" etc... Chicago is so dark and sinister and I just get great pictures when I hear the verse of this song.
since when is chicago dark and sinister?
i think the writer just has a connection with Chicago, probably not that it's so sinister a city. all cities have underworlds for people to find trouble in. this song really sounds like imagery of death, some naive gal running away to the city but ending up dead. the leaves imagery & the pall imagery, that's what i see. his voice for this song is amazing. headphones make it even better.
he said last night (in chicago at the riv) that he wrote this in ukranian village, which is a neighborhood here.
I wonder if the village mostly came into existence, or had a big population increase, after the Berlin wall was built.
I wonder if the village mostly came into existence, or had a big population increase, after the Berlin wall was built.
I started thinking that the wall in the song is not a wall in Chicago, but actually refering to the Berlin Wall as a general symbol of the communist takover of much of Eastern Europe, including Ukraine.
I started thinking that the wall in the song is not a wall in Chicago, but actually refering to the Berlin Wall as a general symbol of the communist takover of much of Eastern Europe, including Ukraine.
That makes the "second language" part make sense. Because so many people's lives were disrupted and they had to move to America, they now have to speak in a second language.
That makes the "second language" part make sense. Because so many people's lives were disrupted and they had to move to America, they now have to speak in a second language.
Perhaps it's about some kid who tried to go to the city to make it big with their art, and they just got shot down by the pretentious assholes, as you do when you go into that field.
Hence she "hit a wall" And "everybody's at a disadvantage speaking with that second language"
I feel like this belongs on Floyds 'The Wall'
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