This Town

Oh I’m shaking, slightly nervous

All my luck has lost its purpose

Please explain this grave disservice

And tell me if the big guns

Were really necessary

On the poor side of the city leaning up against the Shell

Drinking imitation brandy till I got too drunk to tell

That it’s the start of every movie where the kids don’t make it home

You know the man’s alone and lonely we should try to get to know him

But when he sings

I’m not coming down

This town isn’t breathing

They can’t tie me down

If the house has no ceiling

I’m not coming down

This town isn’t breathing

With a map on his desk of a stone in the sea

I’ll go barreling south if she won’t come to me

And he says

“Oh I need a neighbor to love”

And I said

“That’s all that anyone does

Anyone does”

I’m not coming down

This town isn’t breathing

They can’t tie me down

If the house has no ceiling

I’m not coming down

This town isn’t breathing

This town

My city

As I fly over

It looks so pretty

For the first time