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Oh I know everybody here's been dying to get back to Rosemont StreetBut that road was made of flesh and now it's dead and now it's beatThe sun burnt past every rock across the street from that cracked lotDetroit air just breaths away and that sun died in a petrified wayOnto the driveway, table napkins blown awayInto the alleyway and summer is the strangest time of dayI've seen beauty far upstateA century is all it takesTo turn a homestead to the groundBut there is one thing that I foundI ain't seen these things in vainAnd deep outside the siren's wailing far from me on the still nightAnd through the yards the spores are sailing on the toes of those dreams in flightTo the north...back and forthOur moments make us off-ramp islands where language tramps and falls to silenceOh to forget...the T.V. setAnd images of stranger feelings rape our walls and wallpaper our ceilingsI've seen beauty far upstateA century is all it takesTo turn a homestead to the groundBut there is one thing that I foundI ain't seen these things in vainSongtexteI was born to the lawnmower's cryingAnd the drying of our gilded lotTrust in God when our roofs are sighing, againAnd the hill is crying thanks a lotWatertowers are drunker than grandfathersBut they're equally happyAll that's golden was once eternally unfoldin'Now dusktime is the glimpse to see it...But I'm a burstin' piece, a questionin' priest, like a politician out eastI've seen swimming pools full of darkness, on the brightest moonlit nightsAnd I've seen fairgrounds, heard their sounds, and in that ground lies just what I've foundBasements are now all we got with decade shades and days that rotLandbirds flew over my head, flag at half mast no one is deadOh I know that that's not true, but we're so desp'rate, what else can we do?I've seen beauty far upstateA century is all it takesTo turn a homestead to the groundBut there is one thing that I foundI ain't seen these things in vainAnd everybody dying here has made it back to Rosemont StreetThe roses shake, the sidewalk aches and Detroit air is hissing at our feet Aus Songtexte Mania