Tent City

from Savage Journey by TopHat

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lyrics

// VERSE 1 //
5th Ave is the last place that I want to be,
but it’s the only place that'll shelter me.

// CHORUS 1 //
Did you see the fire that brought the vision down?
They searched all night, but they never found
our handiwork.

We got lucky LA’s finest never saw.
We tread a thin line on the frontier of the law,
and we get nothing.

// VERSE 2 //
I suppose we were never meant to carry this weight,
that would disguise the eyes that twist our fate.

// CHORUS 2 //
Lefty makes the rounds collecting all the dues.
Hesitating, persuading with a generator fuse.
The money floats up.

This town’s got room for one unrivaled patron saint,
unsympathetic and he wields a .38,
and he knows our names.

// VERSE 3 //
Our sunken pipe dreams were quick to fade away.
A life of crime that fades into a haze of gray.

// CHORUS 3 //
Mikey’s playhouse was the sandlot on the green,
I could have sworn I heard him scream.
Then we saw the news.

His clientele hides in a spring mattress chateau,
on the side of town where the cops will never show.
That’s Tent City.