Tar And Cement Lyrics

Tar And Cement lyrics

Tar and Cement

 Verdelle Smith

 

 The town I came from was quiet and small

 we played in the meadows where the grass grew so tall

 in summer the lilacs would grow everywhere

 the laughter of children would float in the air

 

 As I grew older I had to roam

 far from my family, far from my home

 into the city, where lives can be spent

 lost in the shadows of tar and cement.

 

 Chorus:

 And every night I'd sit alone and learn

 what loneliness meant

 up in my rented room above the world

 of tar and cement.

 

 Each day I'd wake up and look at the sky

 think of the meadows where I used to lie

 then I'd remember all of that's gone

 you're in the city, you better push on

 get what you came for, before it's too late

 get what you came for, the meadows can wait.

 

 Repeat Chorus

 

 Many years later, tired at last

 I headed for home to look for my past

 I looked for the meadows, there wasn't a trace

 six lanes of highway had taken their place

 where were the lilacs and all that they meant

 nothing but acres of tar and cement.

 Yet I can see it there so clearly now

 where has it gone?

 Yes I can see it there so clearly now

 where has it gone?

 

 Where are the meadows? (tar and cement)

 where are the lilacs? (tar and cement)

 and where is the tall grass? (tar and cement)

 the laughter of children? (tar and cement)

 nothing but acres (tar and cement)

 acres and acres.....(fade to end)

 

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