Safe are the Skyscrapers
Lights shimmering in a pulsating reverie
Colours dancing in oblivion
She has big city dreams, this one.
Follow your heart,
Or so they said,
To the place without darkness
As your name flashes
In beacons of light
Bright as the stars
And when you’re famous
People will let those lights burn them
Burn their eyes, their hearts, their souls.
But you will not know them,
And nor will you care,
While they’re hanging your photo
On the tallest walls of glass
Inside the skyscrapers
The world is different
As the shadows are absorbed
And the reality is
The back of the billboard
Is blank.
And you smile in naivety
As the city consumes you
Carried by the image
On the backdrop of the city
They foil your feats
And drown your sound
And the ground feels so hard
That you can’t stand straight
And when you fall
No one is there
To help you up
To see your face
To see the light fade in your eyes.
She had big city dreams, this one.
Lights shimmering in a pulsating reverie
Colours dancing in oblivion
She has big city dreams, this one.
Follow your heart,
Or so they said,
To the place without darkness
As your name flashes
In beacons of light
Bright as the stars
And when you’re famous
People will let those lights burn them
Burn their eyes, their hearts, their souls.
But you will not know them,
And nor will you care,
While they’re hanging your photo
On the tallest walls of glass
Inside the skyscrapers
The world is different
As the shadows are absorbed
And the reality is
The back of the billboard
Is blank.
And you smile in naivety
As the city consumes you
Carried by the image
On the backdrop of the city
They foil your feats
And drown your sound
And the ground feels so hard
That you can’t stand straight
And when you fall
No one is there
To help you up
To see your face
To see the light fade in your eyes.
She had big city dreams, this one.