"White City" lyrics
Here a tower shining bright once stood gleaming in the night
Where now there's just the rubble in the hole
Here the paddies and the frogs came to gamble on the dogs
Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago
Oh, the torn up ticket stubs from a hundred thousand mugs
Now washed away like dead dreams in the rain
And the carpark's going up and they're pulling down the pubs
And it's just another bloody rainy day
Oh, sweet city of my dreams, of speed and skill and schemes
Like Atlantis, you just disappeared from view
And the hare upon the wire has been burnt upon your pyre
Like the black dog that once raced out from trap two
Where now there's just the rubble in the hole
Here the paddies and the frogs came to gamble on the dogs
Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago
Oh, the torn up ticket stubs from a hundred thousand mugs
Now washed away like dead dreams in the rain
And the carpark's going up and they're pulling down the pubs
And it's just another bloody rainy day
Oh, sweet city of my dreams, of speed and skill and schemes
Like Atlantis, you just disappeared from view
And the hare upon the wire has been burnt upon your pyre
Like the black dog that once raced out from trap two
Writer(s): Shane Patrick Lysaght Macgowan
