MONUMENT

#8

City Rivers Painted Green

City rivers painted green
Yet my heart is blue
Endless faces on the streets
Yet I don't see you

Like Orpheus I descend
Into murky pubs
It's your kingdom, I just need to
Pass the drunken hounds

I am drinking to forget
Oh, I wish I could
I can't love you, but I can't
Cease to love you too

With your healing touch you have
Turned me into gold
Taste of metal on my lips
Mixed with whisky coke

Lay your arms on me again
Melt my rusting heart
Squeezed in cage of trochee rhythms
Chained by cliché rhymes

With no voice or song to sing
Nothing left to say
I am crawling out of dungeon
Mermaid with no tail

Hazy streets are full of wind
We're far into new day
New day, new year, I'm older now
It's time to celebrate

Empty club, no line, just lines
Not ready for daylight
House music softly playing:
I'm lonely,
And I need to be with someone
Tonight