City of Ashes

I took a trip then I looked around

the city looks a little clearer now

it takes a dollar out of town

I cross it

I met a man with a backwards hat

he said I’ve gotta get out of halifax

and once I get to goin’ no I can’t go back

they’ll find me

once I hit the road

there’s a place I’d like to go

where the streets are painted gold

like you’d never imagine

and when it’s my time to go

take me down across the cove

throw me out don’t save my soul

you can let em’ have it

the city of ashes

when it feels like he can’t go on

he plays a record and he sings along

to hard times and that jersey song

it’s magic

I saw him down at the liquor store

not the man that he was before

he grabbed a forty and walked out the door

he said to me

he lost it all from a few bad bets

he left his family out to pay the debt

said to his daughter that he’d soon be back

and he told her he’d be sober and before he left

he said

once we hit the road

there’s a place that we should go

where the streets are painted gold

like you’d never imagine

and when it’s my time to go

take me down across the cove

throw me out don’t save my soul

you can let em’ have it

the city of ashes

and when it’s my time to go

take me down across the cove

throw me out don’t save my soul

you can let em’ have it

the city of ashes