Seventh Avenue Prophet - Zox

A pair of dog tags you called sympathy

Hung like a cross around your neck

On tired streets you sermoned tirelessly

For the crowds that gathered in your head

No one seems to notice as they pass

Battering rams can’t break through the glass

You said you can’t keep on running forever

Love is the only forever

You’re sure they’ll come around someday

'73 black leather bomber coat

Draped like a cassock across your chest

On stormy nights sometimes I’d stop and you would smile

And swear the rain don’t get us wet

No one seems to notice as they pass

Battering rams can’t break through the glass

You said you can’t keep on running forever

Love is the only forever

You’re sure they’ll come around someday

But no one ever came around

Those pretty words they let you down

And the last time I went by

The only thing that I could find

Was a beat up cardboard sign that said love will save us all

You had this grin that you called honesty

Smelled more like liquor on your breath

In a moment of clarity you said freedom’s just worth dying for

If you’ve got none to live for left

No one seems to notice as they pass

Battering rams can’t break through the glass

You said you can’t keep on running forever

Love is the only forever

You’re sure they’ll come around someday