Name: Something About the City
Duration: P00H03M15S
Description: "Can't you hear her calling?"

Something About the City

from The No-Bodies by Erthman & the No-Bodies

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"Can't you hear her calling?"

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On a hot summer's day
From so very far away
He could hear her calling him

Through the burning breeze
Underneath those shading trees
Her voice drifted so thin

So he ran to her
Through the fields of golden wheat
Into the city streets

He searched high and low
But lo and behold
He'd been tricked by the city

Big city got you spinnin' around
Reeling 'til you hit the ground
Dying from your every need
Starve the hungry to feed the greed
Lights will blind 'til you can't see
Your choking on the air you breathe
Cement walls called industry
Destroying lives to live in ecstacy

Years passed while he searched town
He became depressed and down
He missed his home out on the range

He packed up his little wares
And made his way out there
But deep inside he always felt so strange

City life had polluted his soul
So let his tale be told
To stop the madness once and for all

We must realize one thing
He's just one humman being
The greed has befallen us all

I know the big city's got you spinnin' around
Reeling 'til you hit the ground
Dying from your every need
Starve the hungry to feed your greed
Lights will blind 'til you can't see
Your choking on the air you breathe
Cement walls called industry
Destroy your life to live in ecstacy

There's something 'bout the city...

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from The No-Bodies, released November 18, 2010
Written Recorded Mixed by M. Moore

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Erthman Los Angeles, California

Artist.Writer.Musician. A visionary creator & dedicated observer of the world and its people.. 1984 M.B.S.H

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