The City Prevails - Cool Hand Luke

For all the spires

This city raised

You’d think

This is a holy place

The shadow of a cross descends

But it’s swallowed by the haze

You never sleep do you?

Always pouring smoke into

The atmosphere

What happens here

Stays with us till the grave

Wisdom cries out

In the streets

But the sirens

Are singing us to sleep

They’re so loud

That I can’t think

I hear voices

But I just can’t tell

And when we’re dead

The city prevails

Countless walk the open streets

With shackles chained

Around their feet

Wisdom says to fly away

But they cannot see their wings

Water, water everywhere

But not a drop

That I would dare

Drink and so we think we’ll go

Imbibe the filthy air

Wisdom cries out

In the streets

But the sirens

Are singing us to sleep

They’re so loud

That I can’t think

I hear voices

But I just can’t tell

And when we’re dead

The city prevails

Don’t be silent, God

Don’t be silent

Please, don’t be silent

Or I will fall

Into the world

I will fall

Into the world

Don’t be silent

Please, God

Don’t be silent

Don’t be silent

Please, God

Don’t be silent

Or I will fall

Into the world

Or I will fall

Into the world