Rusty Cans and Dusty Alleys

RUSTY CANS AND DUSTY ALLEYS

I’m a liar and a card cheat

I’m the swindler among you thieves

Oh true life must be elsewhere

A little coolness if you please

Down twisted nightmare alleys

Past rotten rags and half chewed chicken bones

Where the devils cackle rings in your ear

But when you close your eyes

The voice you hear’s your own

It’s a stage and it’s a prison

Turn your cruelty into charm

Are you my dark accomplice

Be my lover take my arm

Ezekiel haunts the shadows

Our smokey Halloween all burning bright

That much we got in common

Conceived in darkness baptised in the light

Rusty Cans and dusty Alleys

City red, City Blue

Ah this old city sins ah baby they mark on you

It’s currency and commerce

All those hustlers making moves

Oh how much more of myself

Am I gonna have to loose

It’s dramas and it’s fiction

A pretty crime for a brutal pantomime

These days I couldn’t care less

Baby you keep yours and I’ll keep mine

Rusty Cans and Dusty Alleys

City Reds City Blue

Oh this old city’s sins ah baby they mark on you

Cos I’m a liar and a card cheat

I’m the swindler among you thieves

It’s bye bye baby think it’s time to take my leave

A wax work in a peep show the vagrant outcast he peers into our eyes

Something in the nights burns

Something in our pagan blood returns !

Rusty Cans and Dusty Alleys

City Red, City Blue

Oh this old city’s sins oh baby they mark in you

Rusty Cans and Dusty Alleys

Oh I don’t wanna know...

Oh I just, I just, I just... I just gotta go