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Michael Beatty: Lyrics & Listen

City Scrapes

(Michael Beatty)

The city scrapes up the streets after midnight

Graffitti gangsters tag along

To the rail, the eye, the hook, the Nightingale

Money junkies have it all

 

In the alleyway, ice melts into a river

A solemn sailors port of call

The city fades into dank dusk of idol haze

Another day has come and gone

 

Oh, the city scrapes

My heart aches

For you

 

Take me downtown

To hear the folk song kings

Take me downtown 

Tripping Alphabet City

Take me downtown

Through the barrio

Watch the river flow away

 

Ol Mickey Finn put a spell on me and that’s why I’m here

Where the clubkids squat the night

By the band, underage, hand in hand

This is love on down the dive

 

In the excess fire of naked neon fantasy

The queen of night ascends

China’s son all broke up and come undone

Got nothing in the morning

 

Oh, the city scrapes

My heart aches

For you

 

Take me downtown

To hear the folk song kings

Take me downtown

Tripping Alphabet City

Take me downtown

Through the barrio

Watch the river flow away

 

Devil in the doorway, whiskey on ice

This old bar is like my home

Got the beat jukin underneath my feet

La Dolce Vita on the edge

 

Wrote you a letter twenty years ago today

Think I’ll send it out tonight

I’m still the same, walking out in the rain

Won’t go down without a fight

 

Oh, the city scrapes

My heart aches

For you

 

Take me downtown

To hear the folk song kings

Take me downtown

Tripping Alphabet City

Take me downtown

Through the barrio

Watch the river flow away