Rusty Strings Collective

2 – Rustbelt Fairytale
Recorded by: She Feels Like Pittsburgh
From the Album: Groovin' The Mill

Lyrics and notes

i live in a rustbelt fairytale
where all the trees move simultaneously
and you can see the shadows shifting
as the homebums play their bucketdrums
off the avenue off the avenue
guiding my rhythm with their heartbeats
as the rust pumps through my blood
these streets are my veins
and each fractured nerve is an alley
and my mind is toxified
auras of neon signs electrified
and now my brain is fried

canyons immersed in oil and water
i am anguished in oil and water
watch as the anxious flames
continue to burn
and the warehouses whisper to the streetlights
as the clouds cut the stillness of the wee hours
and in the comfort of my wandering
i see the sharks out on the prowl
don't take from me the only solace i can find
don't take from me my only piece of mind
ever expansive as the sky i dwell under
just leave me to walk the lengths of my body
just leave me to walk the lengths of my body
for there is no place to call my own
there are no homes only boxes
there are no homes only boxes

but who needs boxes when you have these streets
in the middle of the night
i can hear the city as she breathes
i feel that i am of it i can feel it in me
i feel that i am of it i can feel it in me