Titus Andronicus - In A Big City lyrics

rate me

I grew up on one side of the river

I was a disturbed dangerous drifter

Moved over to the other side of the river

Now I’m a drop in a deluge of hipsters

Something a guy from the first side said

To die in a cipher city to a cinder

Male or female, beggars still the only ones calling me “mister”

And some of my dreams are coming true

And some of the smoke from the other room is seeping through

And some other ghost in another tomb is screaming too

Black hole open up wide

Yr lost son is coming inside

Spaceship? Or a lifeboat?

Put me out coach, I’m ready to float

Who would fardels bear to grunt and sweat

‘neath a life that was so mundane?

And what would you expect from a guy like me

On a day such as Monday?

When I know life begins at the moment of consumptions

So taxing on the dollars and the sense of deduction

And every cent I ever earned, I spend and I would again

It’s easy turning me on I’m nearly a robot

I’ve been building bombs

Bombs between beers and blow jobs

Lifeless automaton feeling like a ghost

I don’t know much but I know which side’s buttered on my toast

From jersey I come but I pump my own gas

I’m a dirty bum but I wipe my own ass

If yr chasing any other kinds of currency, son

Yr really doing little more than twiddling yr thumbs.