Gone are the cornfields you used to call home The plow and the tractor to which you were chained Where after all is the glory in dirt With your head in the clouds and the mud on your shirt
You took your discontent and the cash your folks gave Let it ride on one ticket to fortue and fame With no pangs of guilt in that sullen young heart You took you own birthright and feed it to the sharks
At the gates of the city’s insatiable maw Our hero arrived staring slack jawed and dumb At the circus of neon that painted the clouds And the tall shiny towers that clawed at the sky
Cold and malevolent heartless and cruel An apple proffered a knife held unseen Defiler of daughters corruptors of sons A Hell-on-earth playground of crack pipes and guns The moment you dumbly emerged from that train You fell under the spell of the city Enticed by her beauty and come hither smile Sedated and drunk you fell into her arms
Breath deep the sweet perfume of her insanity Seduce and intoxicated taken without a fight Learn fast or be crushed by the ways of the city As the coils of darkness tighten slowly around your heart
"Welcome to my parlor" said the spider to the fly
Hollow and frozen where once your love burned brightly Forsaken and distant, destined for the grave
Look at yourself in the mirror and wail in despair Believing the lie that you cannot go home again
If you leave now you can make it home by sunrise
You empty the bottle and hope that this time it will numb you To the weight of the world that come to bring you down But the flood of regret that seems to fill you with madness My also serve as the current that carries you home
Breath deep the sweet perfume of her insanity Seduce and intoxicated taken without a fight Learn fast or be crushed by the ways of the city As the coils of darkness tighten slowly around your heartTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
