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We Are the City Lyrics
they're selling incense on the corner, the sweet smell fills the air
the Krishna punks are dancing and ringing the bells down on Tompkins Square
the beautiful and the broken, the ramshackle and the rakehell
I'm drinking down on 11th and A with all my favorite wastrels
We are the city, we are its pulse and its beat
We are the city, see us tramp the streets
steam rises from the iron grates, the smoke it fills my lungs
you can hear the sounds of all the world sung in a thousand tongues
the subway mariachi, the arias dying strains
and the busker in the station singing of escapades out on the D train
We are the city, in all its joy and pain
We are the city, our sins washed away in the rain
Gotham, Gomorrah
We are the stars dead but still shining, we are the constellations
high above the rush hour crowd down at the station
the lunatic asylum on Roosevelt Island, GO in the park in Chinatown
and the Loisaida poet, Molloch he's calling it down
We are the City, it all its joy and sorrow
We are the City, a prayer for all tomorrow
Gotham, Gomorrah
the Krishna punks are dancing and ringing the bells down on Tompkins Square
the beautiful and the broken, the ramshackle and the rakehell
I'm drinking down on 11th and A with all my favorite wastrels
We are the city, we are its pulse and its beat
We are the city, see us tramp the streets
you can hear the sounds of all the world sung in a thousand tongues
the subway mariachi, the arias dying strains
and the busker in the station singing of escapades out on the D train
We are the city, our sins washed away in the rain
high above the rush hour crowd down at the station
the lunatic asylum on Roosevelt Island, GO in the park in Chinatown
and the Loisaida poet, Molloch he's calling it down
We are the City, a prayer for all tomorrow
Gotham, Gomorrah
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greeninoregon On Jul 30, 2013
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