Citadel - City Dreams Lyrics

The city sleeps, the city dreams
Of apocalyptic scenes
Of scenes that seem much too obscene
To speak of
But the neon signs will rise
Like dollar signs in people's eyes
And it'll all be sacrificed
Before dawn
A ventriloquist is talking
While his eyes secretly walking
Along the outlines of his best friend's
Failures
And in the madhouse there are cries
And the madmen keeper sighs
Because he's thinking of his wife
And all the times
He beat her
But let things happen I was told
Don't try to resist
Because it leaves you sad and restless
Chewing on life's gist
Well, the recepcionista frowns
The face mask is her wedding gown
That led her to complete
Invisibility
And in the backyards the kids hide
Because they are dissatisfied
And their next door neighbour couldn't
Blame them
'Cause he's a dwarf and all he knows
Is that evanescence shows
In purple irises of those
Who work for their overdose
Of reason
But let things happen I was told
Take it as it comes
Otherwise you'll end up mad and
Beaten like the drums
The clockwork moves, a cigarette glows
And somewhere Robert Johnson moans
About the times he spent so
Alone
And if his vision starts to fade
A newborn's consciousness awakes
And that is how the story ends
In my mind
It will leave me here to stand
In some forgotten no-man's-land
With heads full of desert sand
And an ants' kingdom on my hand
To hitch-hike to a widely unknown
Band
I spoke to the city the same night
Because I was afraid it died
Of all the cancer stuck inside its alleys
Well, it said to my surprise
That it anticipates to lie
One time on its back, its eyes
Turned towards the great black unlimited night-time sky