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City Breakdown

from Earth Rising by Chris Conway

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City Breakdown
There were times
When you could walk this city
Without worries, without fear
Now we hold our breath
Walking down the alleyways
Afraid of our own children
Every night of the year

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Feel the city fall, city breakdown
From the outside in and around our ears
Feel the city fall, city breakdown
It's time to move to where the air is clear

Night and morning
See the grand procession
Of lonely people in their pretty machines
In one big rush, going nowhere
I can hear each and every silent scream

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Well I know, it doesn't matter anymore
No one will listen to a single word I say
But I feel trouble - I hear it knocking at the door
And I don't know why it has to be that way

There were times
When every man, woman and child
Could expect shelter overhead
Now they line the streets - living statistics
With paper and cardboard to line their bed

And when did all the locks
And all the burglar-alarms
Go up on every window, every door
Young families and old ones, hide behind barricades
Like they were living through another war

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from Earth Rising, released February 2, 2000
Chris Conway - vocals, tin & low D whistles, keyboards, kalimba, percussion
Vikki Clayton - vocals
Dan Britton - bodhrans, vocals
Simon Styring - electric guitar

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Think David Crosby on a journey taking in Ireland, a jazz club, and Outer Space.

"Songs of Love & Peace & Outer Space" is his slogan and that sums it up well.

He has toured with ex-Monkees Peter Tork, played with members of Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention as well as Vikki Clayton, Martin Carthy, Sally Barker, Pete Morton, Cathy Lesurf, & Tommy Emmanuel and Talvin Singh. ... more

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