Jane Siberry The Empty City Lyrics

The Empty City Lyrics

the outline of the city 
the sheerness of its height 
I thought that I was kidding 
when I said - I love this sight  
 
I love this skyline 
towers rising from the trees 
white bars on a blue graph 
not exactly flapping in the breeze  
 
cast upon a great white plaza 
filtered down through architects` maps 
a stand of glassy super-structures 
rising from the sprawling city flats  
 
streaming to the blue sea 
gleaming like beluga 
reduced to teeming atoms 
and shimmering in the heat  
 
hope you have your camera 
hope you have some paper 
because if no one gets this down 
then it`s gone forever  
 
this is the elevator 
I press all the buttons 
every floor is different 
a different number anyway  
 
the marble in the lobby 
the silent corridors 
is this the new church 
out of which.. no one pours  
 
I feel I`m rising higher 
I must be in the clouds by now 
I knew it when I saw it 
I picked the right office tower  
 
I feel I heard it lift off 
break away from all the rest 
lifting its great heaviness  
 
hope you have your camera ...  
 
strange when I think about it 
well, that I should write of birds 
and flying things 
I always tried to avoid it 
reminds me of dumb girls and bad poetry 
well - I`m not perfect  
 
I don`t know why it moves me 
maybe I`m going to die soon 
a secret known only to 
known only to not even me  
 
I want to live forever 
I fear maybe you don`t 
I fear that I will lose you 
leave me here to carry on alone  
 
that`s why I`m not that surprised 
that one has broken away 
has lifted from the silent earth 
and carried me away  
 
hope you have your camera 
hope you have some paper 
because if no one gets this down 
then it`s gone forever  
 
a crystalline set of dominoes 
except not really crystalline 
and sort of domino-like 
but not really  
 
life is a tall white building 
lifting from the silent earth 
it`s carrying a message 
carrying it away  
 
I am only... 
I am only...