Don't let the city steal your soul. ~Terri Guillemets
Noisy Lover
You are a lover that only some hearts can keep
with your noisy chaos and slippery streets
you have the power to make fickle the strongest of souls
making them yearn for a more green and peaceful home
though you are like an amazing poem with so much packed in a small space
you cannot compare to God's quite country of beauty and grace.
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Lost on 5th and Broadway
A trip to the city gives me shivers like frost
cause instead of arriving it feels more like being lost
getting mixed in the fabric of engines and lights
and for some that is suffocation of a different kind
a world full of people from the west to the east
an accident on Main and traffic jam on all streets
you are certain to get lost before you find your place
cause you left your heart on a field a country mile away.
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Skyscraper Song
You have designed me like gods that never knew heaven
my posture straight and strong but I am prone to disease
your blue prints seem perfect in plan and design
my stories are many and I am worth more
than some see in a a life time
then when plans change and walls mold and decay
I am disposed of like trees
for you have designed me like gods that never knew heaven
my posture straight and strong but I am prone to disease
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The City and the Night
It is alive like a crackling camp fire
streams of light seem to melt together
moving to a pace only fast songs can play to
one street begins where another ends
yet all objects in the mirror are more distant
than they seem
still like lovers the city and the night become one
the sighs of a hundred lost lovers
hum in the distance and yet ring right in our ears
so many lonely people in one place
our love is 100 miles away
while another's bumps us as we pass.
