Track Insight / Lyrics
Streets once pulsing, dead now and still
'82 subway map, my watchful observant chill
Attic attic window, morning sun creeping in
Dust motes untroubled, forgotten summer within
Melodies whispered, glass panes vibrating with sound
Muffled voices of city, fading into the ground
Neon dreamscape, faded like a painting's hue
Memories painted there, longing to break through
Tapestry of city life, suspended in time
Neon dreamscape, yearning for the night's shine
Grey stone gargoyles, rainwater pooling at their feet
_Seven_ Nineties Shopping Plaza, storefronts empty, beat
Ambulance siren's wail, lonesome cry across the haze
Old diner's neon sign, peas and carrots fading grey
Graffiti-scrawled chemical plant, smokestacks marred by rust
Skeletal remains of a ghost train, no passengers to trust
Neon dreamscape, faded like a painting's hue
Memories painted there, longing to break through
Tapestry of city life, suspended in time
Neon dreamscape, yearning for the night's shine
Panning the map, ghosts of lives lived long ago
Trash-strewn alleys, forgotten storylines grow
Subway graffiti's fleeting art, the city's whispered voice
Long shadows stretching, summer day's scorched, hopeless choice
Steam hissing from manhole's maw, a fetid, dampened sigh
Echoes of a neighborhood, city's secrets and lies
In neon dreams, night's warm embrace revives the past
City's heartbeat stirs, forgotten passion reclaimed to last
Diner's sizzle and chatter, bellhop's jaunty ring
Midnight gumshoe's trenchcoat flapping, city's pulse unfurls a spring
Neon dreamscape, vivid like a painter's dream
Memories bursting forth, reality's seams undone
Tapestry of city life, stitching time back together
Neon dreamscape, alive with the night's sweet weather
_Union Street Diner_, booth leather cracked and worn
Greek diner owner, coffee pot perpetually warmed
_3 AM_ and lone straggler, nursing a cigarette's glow
Across the counter, shadowed mirror, secrets left to grow
Refrigerator hum, ice cubes clinking in the trough
Cigarette smoke curling up, neon's inviting proof
Neon dreamscape, vivid like a painter's dream
Memories bursting forth, reality's seams undone
Tapestry of city life, stitching time back together
Neon dreamscape, alive with the night's sweet weather
Neon dreamscape, city's mystic heartbeat
Faded hues of a once-vibrant treat
Streets asleep, the only sound's the city's sigh
Neon dreamscape, watching till the morning light.
