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Dave Thompson
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My City
Any given morning begins above the sprawl Level to the West ridge before the pavement starts to fall Across the bordering basin, a thousand years of settlement Like patchwork in their colour, their allegiances The damp air of this autumn disfigures Divis in the rain From summer flowers recovering Heather's growing back again Starlings in the church spire, raise my (?) The chink in the weather's armor, a brighter outlook for today From the mountains to the crane to the Eastern hills again My city bright beyond the gray Past the one time rural graveyard, headstones drown in tussocked grass Enveloped now by tarmac, loyal sentries of the past I watch the idle traffic, it cannot move beyond a crawl Much like change comes to the city, if we ever change at all Then I join the river sweeping around Stranmillis bend Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Imperceptible currents take it to its journey's end I think of Heraclitus, afraid he was right; 'No one ever steps into the same river twice' From the mountains to the crane to the Eastern hills again My city bright beyond the gray I am across this river, its water flows within my veins And like its slow persistent journey I'll watch this city change I have no words of wisdom, nothing not been said before There is room for one more singer and the chords of a guitar We have watched the candles flicker and in dark times hardly dared to hope We are rarely optimistic, there's more blue skies than we know From the mountains to the crane to the Eastern hills again My city bright beyond the gray
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