Sunken City

There's a hole in the barbed wire fence by the bench where we first met It's big enough to fit a person if you squeeze If you don't mind a couple scrapes you could escape, you could come with me But you've got to crawl through on your hands and knees Last night lightning hit the shed, knocked the generators dead Stick close to the walls, keep out of sight We haven't got too long before the floodlights come back on; We're going to make a break for it tonight Once you're past, there's no path, just head straight for the coastline 'Till the ground beneath your feet gives way To cracked up concrete pulverized by the ocean's crashing tides I'd really like to take you there someday Back before your life began, this was interstate 110 Connecting city suburbs one by one Until an earthquake from the depths dragged it down with all the rest Leaving all of our accomplishments undone It's almost eighty miles long, a relic of a world long gone It's a sign and it serves to remind That California is crumbling into the ocean It's just doing it one piece at a time There's no metropolis out there. just dirt and dusty air But I swear I see a city inside of you Your face is like a skyline. your hair, a thatch power lines And your mouth is Mulholland Ave. And if somehow we survive when the trebuchets subside I will teach you every hymn this world forgot And we'll sing propaganda songs of wars we don't remember God free me from the burden of my thoughts --- Sunken City - David Wirsig