You would think upon waking, it's only light rises when it needs reason It's not that easy Just ask the first night that tripped and it and fell Evidence was the exit wound moon and swelled tunes I heard on transit tomb travels, buried strewn tracks or scars hardly carved before the green line beneath us moved I felt awakened myself From a downtown canopy where steel looms, lurks and you can only dodge the truth if you see it first So I put some warnings in the verse and every day return to the march of you're death or to the essence of you're punitive work Progress put into reverse No doubt that's the straw that brings us back to perverse Or the news you heard on the message board called the other side, bigger figures or big business They put ugliness in beautiful colors and clever words, I read graffiti on the bridge Saying "**** the city" to which I replied The pleasures all hers