A straight shot
third floor,
Right side, red door;
Keep your head down.
a faint sound,
The grinding of industrial machines.
Late night, midtown;
Someone's creeping in the red door.
We're all hiding in the light,
City of the Empire.
There are bodies
Behind white sheets,
In white walls
And they're unseen.
Behind the red door,
The walls seethe,
Out the window,
Just concrete.
Someone's creeping in the red door.
There are faces
Behind white sheets.
They're quiet
And their life's cheap.
We're all hiding in the light.
City of the empire.
We're all hiding in the light.
Late night, midtown
Where it's lowdown,
The bound-ground.
A faint sound,
The grinding of industrial machines.
A straight shot
third floor,
Right side, red door,
Keep your head down.
You're hat low.
We're all hiding in the light.
City of the empire.
We're all hiding in the light.
There are faces
Behind white sheets.
They peak out,
And they don't leave.
Behind the red door
It's filthy.
People sleep where
They're working.
We're all hiding in the light.
City of the empire.
We're all hiding in the light.
City of the empire...
Late night in midtown
Where the sky disappears.
Vendors selling secrets
In sour breaths of air.
Someone's creeping in the red door.
They are lurking
Like hunters
On the night prowl.
And their hungry
For right now.
Someone's creeping in the red door
In the red light
On the white walls
Where it's unwashed.
Somebody's spreading shame,
You can smell it
From the city drains.
Below the lighthouse,
In the dead-night,
On the dark-roads
Someone's creeping in the red door.
Below the lighthouse,
Eastbound, westbound.
Midtown,
Down-low and low-down.
It holds the whole town.
Below the skyline,
Below the high-tide
Where nobody's wide-eyed.
Someone's creeping in the red door.
A straight shot,
Third floor, right side
Red door...
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