Sixth Street - The Accidentals

Sixth Street

There’s too much noise on Sixth Street

Like a brick in a washing machine

And the alleys look like bed sheets

Wrinkled in the morning haze of gray routine

The tangerines and coffee

The sweetest taste could always drive you up a 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

Ooh

A fire escapade for two

Ooh

An alley serenade in view

Oh the modern day brigade

The loudest silence ever made

Came printed on the faded page today

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 come 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

Ooh

A fire escapade for two

Ooh

An alley serenade in view

Oh the modern day brigade The loudest silence ever made

Came printed on the faded page today

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

Is 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

Ooh

A fire escapade for two

Ooh

An alley serenade in view

Oh the modern day brigade

The loudest silence ever made

Came printed on the faded page today

Ooh

A fire escapade for two

Ooh

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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