How long does beauty last
before it has to be explained?
How long does it arouse
before its dated and plain?
There are plucked flowers and vestiges.
What ifs and memories.
nothing grows wild.
The eye is invaded
by armies of time.
Day tarnished day,
beauty isn't always sublime.
Sometimes seeing is only
seen for a while,
then it goes blind.
What did it see once before?
Why can't it see it no more?
We gut the lobby,
Keep the shell.
We gut the lobby,
keep the shell
We gut the lobby
Keep the shell...
This city's no capsule, preserving
a past.
It's a testing ground for disaster,
chasing the creative thrill in collapse.
The newness of action,
destruction that's beautifully rash.
Don't strap in too tight,
or grow too attached
or you'll just be a wreck
in the beautiful crash.
We gut the lobby,
Keep the shell.
We gut the lobby,
keep the shell
We gut the lobby
Keep the shell...
Oh! New York, New york,
your beautiful neurosis
has the proudest display.
The Truth of the city is
that it's always unmade.
We race to destroy
before the natural course of decay.
It's an aesthetic compulsion,
at ease in the fray.
We're inspired and constricted in
this beautiful absence of space.
Create to amaze,
without a message.
Destroy to create,
abstract cathexis.
Just don't grow too attached,
or you'll just be a wreck
in the beautiful crash.
We gut the lobby,
Keep the shell.
We gut the lobby,
keep the shell
We gut the lobby
Keep the shell...
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