Cities are flesh and cities are smoke Cities are noise and cities are bones

Cities are bricks and cities are light and Cities are dreams and cities are night

Cities are fences and cities are stoves, Machines that build new but cities are old

Cities are cries and cities are scents Cities are paint and miles of pavement

Blame the cities for the change we allow

Rays, the warmth of other suns pull me now

Cities are skin Cities are doors cities are colors and lives unmoored

Cities are sugar and cities are salt Cities are trouble it’s everyone’s fault

Cities are warfare Cities are peace Cities divide you and me

Cities are money and cities are stench extended hand or clenched fist

Blame the cities for the change we allow

Rays, the warmth of other suns pull me now