These streets are debilitating This city devours souls Leaves us tangled in the concrete Leaves us strangled in its chokehold These people have a personal vendetta Against anything that’s real They’ll do anything to create an illusion Do anything to conceal All the emptiness, the vacuous cavity Beneath a pretty face All the pettiness, the festering depravity Capped under an image of grace We have lost our faith in humanity And there is no questioning why There’s nothing that I see here worth saving It took my life but I won’t cry I’d abandon it all without a tearful good bye (All that glitters in this town Never believe what you’re told All that glitters in this town Too frequently is fool’s gold.) Something in the air tonight I almost forget where I am The future expands, the stars align And I begin to believe again There’s something in the air tonight Something will carry me through And when you’re standing by my side I know I’ve found the one thing that’s true Distortions have no power over me now The image warps against a torn facade now Something in the air tonight Something will carry me through And when you’re standing by my side I know I’ve found one thing that’s true Something in the air tonight I begin to believe again The future expands, the stars align I almost forget where I am… © 2006 eveghost
