Citizen Fish lyrics - City on a River

Citizen Fish lyrics - City On A River

Title:	City On A River
Artist:	Citizen Fish
Album:	THIRST
Year:	????
Submitted by:	TimMony
	I see the rubble alongside the river and shout, "Its time we started looking again." We seen it before, except then it was standing, seen the demolition hand-in-hand. We watch the cars zoom past. Seems like nothing's ever going to last. Is this change or merely destruction? Wait a few months and here's the construction of another supermarket as shops close down-redundancy money like a dressing gown barely hiding the naked fear of being recognized. "I used to work here." Staring at the rubble was bad enough so we looked to the river instead. Comparison? No! It couldn't be so! This one flows and the other is dead. But the swans have gone with the current, moved one. And the trees have rotted away. The bridge that joined workers and nature is now a viewpoint to view the decay. We walk around the city a few times more (the repetition makes us numb) built on a river that keeps the score of replaceable scenery. What was won is lost. And the cost is rising. Pride in the city and its horizons killed by the slow destruction of places to live now the only function that reaps rewards is profit and the making of it. Can't afford to look after the poor, if they really want more we got it. The prices is lifelong dedication to the status quo of this consumer nation. Offer no alternative. Don't talk back. Work for twenty years then get the sack. Or not! How much have you got? What kind of strength can take you the length of the ladder? Can you reach the top? Is it madder, or saner, to stay off the rungs and start complaining? About the endless waste, the draining off of human inspiration. Where people and labor and buildings and nature are wasted. I got a taste of it. Stood by the rubble by the river on a bridge.