song for a friend
I.
Hello stranger on the street
Theatre lights for eyes
I promise I’ll be more discreet
If you share your disguise
Cuz I know from your face
You can’t breathe inside this place
Where the streets are made of stone
And everyone’s always alone
And the buildings, they grow high
But they’re blocking out the sky
At a recordbreaking pace
Always more land; never more space
II.
Hello stranger on the train
Stop: New PostModern Age
We’ll take the journey in the rain
To some forgotten stage
Because the stageboards and the flies
Do not qualify as lies
And the stories that we tell
Are not deceptions that we sell
And what is brave and what is true
And what is reckless
We will broadcast in our makeshift Broadway cabaret for two.
III, V.
…Hello; stranger on the street
Theatrical surprise
You’ll Tinseltown your dancing feet
I’ll Hollywood my eyes…
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