Dead City

through the empty window of delight
 bleak abandoned ruins fill your sight
 from your shallow grave you hear the scrape
 there matures the seed of your escape
 through the earth or through the air
 on your dying breath you swear
 to take charge and move ahead
 leave the city of the dead
 buried in the prison of your home
 thethered debtor bound nowhere to roam
 o, to feel the cool after the rain
 keep your cool to keep your thinking sane
 through the earth or through the air
 on your dying breath you swear
 to take charge and move ahead
 leave the city of the dead
 poison pumping daily through the streets
 rusted autos, dusty tracks in fleets
 some are searching vainly for an out
 you, the sulfur burns for the devout
 through the earth or through the air
 on your dying breath you swear
 to take charge and move ahead
 leave the city of the dead
 god is blind, the prophet speaks in lies
 man is forth and only multiplies
 can we be the cancer and the cure?
 thoughtless waste our only act impure
 through the earth or through the air
 on your dying breath you swear
 to take charge and move ahead
 leave the city of the dead