Track Insight / Lyrics
Raindrops glaze the neon streets
In a silent, smoky swarm
Under city lights, I retreat
Angler's peace, I've earned
Concrete streams for silver fish
Slick with morning's oily sheen
In the darkest alley's hush
I find solace, serene
Oh, this city's sorrowful refrain
Echoing in the empty lanes
Yet in solitude I'll sustain
Freedom's fragile, flick'ring gain
Sirens wail, a distant unease
While I sit amidst the squalor's ease
A world of noise, my quiet lease
Under flick'ring highway lights
Oh, this city's sorrowful refrain
Echoing in the empty lanes
Yet in solitude I'll sustain
Freedom's fragile, flick'ring gain
Portraits in the grit and grime
Timeless stories of lives left behind
City's skin, so rough and prim
'Gainst its soul, my heart entwined
Oh, this city's sorrowful refrain
Echoing in the empty lanes
Yet in solitude I'll sustain
Freedom's fragile, flick'ring gain
In the space 'twixt day and night
I hear the city's lonesome sigh
A breathless, restless, endless flight
'Cross these concrete, steel-ribbed skies
The sky's washed crimson, then subdued
Night falls swift as a midnight swoop
In this chill, I'm fully subdued
To the city's unmelodious loop
Oh, this city's sorrowful refrain
Echoing in the empty lanes
Yet in solitude I'll sustain
Freedom's fragile, flick'ring gain
Rain's hush returns, dawn's whisper
Ending my restless, city vigil
Homeward bound, I drift like a bird
From the city's lonely, loveless urban sea.
