Sixth Street

There's too much noise on sixth street
 Like a brick in a washing machine
 And the alleys look like bedsheets
 Wrinkled in the morning haze of gray routine
 The tangerines and coffee
 The sweetest taste could always drive you up the wall
 If hunger is a freight train
 Then the pain unfolds the maps of urban sprawl
 I've made a comeback in a time
 Enforced to memorize the lines
 Upon the pavement and the page
 Behind the scenes and on the stage
 Hu-uhu-uh, a fire escapade for two
 Hu-uhu-uh, an alley serenade in view
 Oh, the modern day brigade, the loudest silence ever made
 Came printed on the faded page today
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 Let the sun slide down the porcelain
 Of a cerulean cereal bowl sky
 Let it hang for the homeless man
 The polished shoes paid by smokes of passerby
 You'll all just turn into suburban fathers
 Your claim to game wrapped round your fleeting cigarette
 Why have a broken heart-to-heart
 When I could always go at you hand-to-hand?
 We hold our jackets at the sleeves
 One hand gives while one receives
 And though the warmth spreads underneath
 The cold wind nips like wolfish teeth
 Hu-uhu-uh, a fire escapade for two
 Hu-uhu-uh, an alley serenade in view
 Oh, the modern day brigade, the loudest silence ever made
 Came printed on the faded page today
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 The raven's on the telephone
 Nevermore, those frozen talons on the wire
 Look upon those avine militants
 Touching shoulders like a feathered gothic choir
 Even in the depths of winter
 Those frigid splinters can't withstand the warmth we hold
 The warpath to destruction
 Was paved with good intentions, but not all good is gold
 So knock my cards to the station floor
 And watch me eye the closest door
 You've earned a place in memory
 The price you pay for cruelty
 Hu-uhu-uh, a fire escapade for two
 Hu-uhu-uh, an alley serenade in view
 Oh, the modern day brigade, the loudest silence ever made
 Came printed on the faded page today
 Hu-uhu-uh, a fire escapade for two
 Hu-uhu-uh, an alley serenade in view
 Oh, the modern day brigade, the loudest silence ever made
 Came printed on the faded page today