This Pathetic City

Title: This Pathetic City

When the sky is dark
And everyone's home from work
We will be all that's left
In this vacant city.

On a corner of Lake Ave
Another victim is stabbed.
No one hears him scream
In this empty city
As his voice echoes back.

We've got to get out,
Out of this pathetic city!

Staring down an empty avenue...
All you see is a newspaper in the wind,
And flickering street lights...
You can stand in this intersection,
Looking down the road
And watch as each traffic lights
Change from green to red.

How much has it torn ya,
Past the point of pity,
When I want to be in California
And you in New York City,
To escape our miserable lives.

But we can't find a way out,
Out of this pathetic city!

But when they've all gone to bed
We'll paint this city red;
And we'll never come back.
As they question our head
When their river runs black.

We didn't destroy this city;
It was the politics,
And corporate pricks!

Though they try to lay blame
It is always the same:
The citizens get screwed
Because it's just their game,
And there's nothing you can do!

We've got to find a way out,
Out of this pathetic city!

And how about the weather
Never getting any better...
Winter is the new institution.
Until snow is all you'll ever know!
It slows you down and drives you mad
Freezing you down to the bone -
Hardening the heart you thought you once had!

Like we need another reason
to hate this city and find a way out,
Out of this pathetic city

 

Story-line conceived & first
    four sections written:
    3/21/2008
Section five & seven written:
    3/23/2008
Section eight written &
    section eleven started:
    4/1/2008
Section eleven finished, &
    section six, nine, ten &
    twelve written, as well
    as edits & title given:
    4/4/2008

 

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