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The rising moon faces the sickening sun
and the lights from the tower blocks go on one by one
A Big Shot, Over looking this black iron skyline
Surrounded by the symbols of prosperity
Sits back in his new leather chair
Ripped off the back of some unfortunate beast

I'm smiling through my teeth
Anybody can be a millionaire
So everybodys gota try

But by the laws of this human jungle
only the heartless will survive
And down there, but for the grace of god, go I

The smoke and the steam, and the broken down dreams
The hope and the hunger, fustration and anger
The little drunken lives
Drivin through the traffic lights
And away from who they are

But I've been thinking of you
In this great city of great solitude

Crossin the central reservtion of my imagination
Searchin for the world I...left behind
a shadow hunting shadows..of chiildhood life
Its all I want and all I miss
But how can I return to a place that doesn't exist

From Mombasa to Miami, Beiruit to Bangladesh
I've flown around the world standing on the wing of a jet
Trying to salvage my emotions from the bottom of the oceans

Yasee I've sold my soul to pay for my dinner
My stomach grew fatter while my heart grew thinner
I ain't foolin Im fallin, I wasn't wicked, just weak
I ain't lyin, I'm dyin, crippled by deceit

Oh the hand that wrote this agony
that has just begun
willl be the hand that pulls the trigger
of this gun