'The City' Lyrics

Song	'The City'
Artist	The Mechanisms
Album	Ulysses Dies At Dawn
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[00:00.000]	作曲 : The Mechanisms
[00:00.114]	Ulysses dies at dawn.
[00:03.060]	At least, that’s the word on the street among those as saw what went down at Calypso’s.
[00:07.439]	Now listen up, cuz we’ve got a labyrinthine twisted task of a tale to tell and if you don’t keep up,
[00:14.005]	you might get lost.
[00:16.420]	First, to understand how this all goes down you’ve got to know a little about the planet we’re talking of.
[00:22.322]	See, on this planet there was a city, grim old city,
[00:25.232]	the sort of place the rain beats down like coffin nails and the air wafts with the cigarette stench of betrayal.
[00:31.737]	My kind of town.
[00:34.841]	Now this city, grim old city,
[00:36.602]	starts to grow.
[00:37.513]	And when it meets other towns, other cities it takes them into itself,
[00:41.309]	absorbs them,
[00:42.089]	until soon enough there’s no land left.
[00:44.418]	So the city spreads outwards into the sea,
[00:46.158]	and when there’s no sea left the city spreads upwards into the sky,
[00:49.463]	and when there’s no sky left it burrows inwards,
[00:56.146]	like a cancer, into the bowels of the planet.
[00:59.702]	And eventually, there is nothing but the city.
[01:05.707]	So generations live and generations die in the warrens and the tunnels and even the lower levels of the surface,
[01:12.125]	never to see the sun.
[01:14.861]	And it’s in one of the deepest,
[01:16.499]	most secret of these tunnels we meet our hero.
[01:19.475]	Goes by the name of Ulysses.
[01:21.857]	Currently beaten, battered, bloody, unbowed.
[01:26.659]	Spits out a mouthful of teeth and disdain and looks up to see four of the meanest bastards of the meanest streets of the meanest parts of the city.
[01:35.512]	All immaculately turned out in pinstripes. We’ll call them the Suits.
[01:41.545]	You might ask how things came to such a path
[01:44.584]	I know Ulysses is.
[01:46.737]	Well, it started in a bar, as these things so often do.
[01:50.193]	In Calypso’s
[01:51.162]	– a run down old gin joint, pays its money to Dionysus –
[01:55.054]	our hero slumped over a bottle of whiskey,
[01:59.264]	trying to drown enough sorrows to choke a horse.
[02:02.293]	And one horse in particular.

[00:00.000]	zuo qu : The Mechanisms
[00:00.114]	Ulysses dies at dawn.
[00:03.060]	At least, that' s the word on the street among those as saw what went down at Calypso' s.
[00:07.439]	Now listen up, cuz we' ve got a labyrinthine twisted task of a tale to tell and if you don' t keep up,
[00:14.005]	you might get lost.
[00:16.420]	First, to understand how this all goes down you' ve got to know a little about the planet we' re talking of.
[00:22.322]	See, on this planet there was a city, grim old city,
[00:25.232]	the sort of place the rain beats down like coffin nails and the air wafts with the cigarette stench of betrayal.
[00:31.737]	My kind of town.
[00:34.841]	Now this city, grim old city,
[00:36.602]	starts to grow.
[00:37.513]	And when it meets other towns, other cities it takes them into itself,
[00:41.309]	absorbs them,
[00:42.089]	until soon enough there' s no land left.
[00:44.418]	So the city spreads outwards into the sea,
[00:46.158]	and when there' s no sea left the city spreads upwards into the sky,
[00:49.463]	and when there' s no sky left it burrows inwards,
[00:56.146]	like a cancer, into the bowels of the planet.
[00:59.702]	And eventually, there is nothing but the city.
[01:05.707]	So generations live and generations die in the warrens and the tunnels and even the lower levels of the surface,
[01:12.125]	never to see the sun.
[01:14.861]	And it' s in one of the deepest,
[01:16.499]	most secret of these tunnels we meet our hero.
[01:19.475]	Goes by the name of Ulysses.
[01:21.857]	Currently beaten, battered, bloody, unbowed.
[01:26.659]	Spits out a mouthful of teeth and disdain and looks up to see four of the meanest bastards of the meanest streets of the meanest parts of the city.
[01:35.512]	All immaculately turned out in pinstripes. We' ll call them the Suits.
[01:41.545]	You might ask how things came to such a path
[01:44.584]	I know Ulysses is.
[01:46.737]	Well, it started in a bar, as these things so often do.
[01:50.193]	In Calypso' s
[01:51.162]	a run down old gin joint, pays its money to Dionysus
[01:55.054]	our hero slumped over a bottle of whiskey,
[01:59.264]	trying to drown enough sorrows to choke a horse.
[02:02.293]	And one horse in particular.

[00:00.000]	zuò qǔ : The Mechanisms
[00:00.114]	Ulysses dies at dawn.
[00:03.060]	At least, that' s the word on the street among those as saw what went down at Calypso' s.
[00:07.439]	Now listen up, cuz we' ve got a labyrinthine twisted task of a tale to tell and if you don' t keep up,
[00:14.005]	you might get lost.
[00:16.420]	First, to understand how this all goes down you' ve got to know a little about the planet we' re talking of.
[00:22.322]	See, on this planet there was a city, grim old city,
[00:25.232]	the sort of place the rain beats down like coffin nails and the air wafts with the cigarette stench of betrayal.
[00:31.737]	My kind of town.
[00:34.841]	Now this city, grim old city,
[00:36.602]	starts to grow.
[00:37.513]	And when it meets other towns, other cities it takes them into itself,
[00:41.309]	absorbs them,
[00:42.089]	until soon enough there' s no land left.
[00:44.418]	So the city spreads outwards into the sea,
[00:46.158]	and when there' s no sea left the city spreads upwards into the sky,
[00:49.463]	and when there' s no sky left it burrows inwards,
[00:56.146]	like a cancer, into the bowels of the planet.
[00:59.702]	And eventually, there is nothing but the city.
[01:05.707]	So generations live and generations die in the warrens and the tunnels and even the lower levels of the surface,
[01:12.125]	never to see the sun.
[01:14.861]	And it' s in one of the deepest,
[01:16.499]	most secret of these tunnels we meet our hero.
[01:19.475]	Goes by the name of Ulysses.
[01:21.857]	Currently beaten, battered, bloody, unbowed.
[01:26.659]	Spits out a mouthful of teeth and disdain and looks up to see four of the meanest bastards of the meanest streets of the meanest parts of the city.
[01:35.512]	All immaculately turned out in pinstripes. We' ll call them the Suits.
[01:41.545]	You might ask how things came to such a path
[01:44.584]	I know Ulysses is.
[01:46.737]	Well, it started in a bar, as these things so often do.
[01:50.193]	In Calypso' s
[01:51.162]	a run down old gin joint, pays its money to Dionysus
[01:55.054]	our hero slumped over a bottle of whiskey,
[01:59.264]	trying to drown enough sorrows to choke a horse.
[02:02.293]	And one horse in particular.

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