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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.
credits
from
Savage Journey,
released January 1, 2013
Music by Alex Koehler
Lyrics by Alex Lanz & Alex Koehler
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