The Songs
I
Now when Donny was in his prime.
He could make a lot of silver from his stocks.
He could promise himself he could run it himself
He could make a whole world out of blocks.
He wanted to pay them and give it a shot
And he would end up on top.
Man, there was nothing that he couldn't make.
Except a mess.
II
There's broken glass in the yards.
Where the iron ore steamers used to stop.
Every promise they made.
Every summer we played.
Now it's raining outside at the docks.
I want to be fair.
Not easily shocked.
But were we ever on top?
Man there was nothing that we couldn't take.
Except the mess.
II
Tear down the house
That my grandfather built.
There's nothing left to keep these bones
But I see them still.
Tear down every house
But build your own new dream.
He raised a family.
He built a business.
He served his country
And made the difference,
That won the war and
Conceived inventions.
A Golden Age.
All things that you can't see.
Coda (Sic transit gloria mundi)
Did you ever ride the park,
Fronting on the river
scene?.
When the avenues were young.
Over Grosse Pointe through the trees.
Did you ever see the plan,
When the century was young?
All the buildings star
Driving fast down Evergreen.
When the elm trees lined the avenues
Standing tall against the green.
Wraooed in halos by the motor cars
Like nobody's ever seen.
Now we drive on down the boulevard
Past the buildings racked with pain.
And I squint so hard through broken glass
Trying hard to see the past.
And then no one sees the emptiness.
When I cannot find a job.
Having seen the thought of,...
Will the future look Supremes?
I spent my teen years here and saw it's inevitable decline. What bothers me so much is that the rest of the country seems to have such little pity and such a short memory. It was only fifty years ago that Detroit was the ‘hi-tech’ capital of the world.
I used to think I would change the world.
I'd make this system run.
I used to think I would stake out my place.
But then I lost my way.
And everything I would tell to my self
And every thing I could claim as my wealth.
I used to think I could make from my heart.
But that was some other day.
Falling, falling
Too wide road.
There was so much there I could not know.
Falling, falling
Down below.
Falling down again.
Chorus
I'm going to start my life over.
And I will live my life again.
And I will love you more than words could say
If I had changed the world.
I'm going to say one tomorrow
Was so much better than today.
And I will never look for any more time
Or any words to say.
II
I used to think I had left the world.
I'd made the best of what I had left.
I used to think I'd forgotten my heart
But then I found my way.
And everything I had kept to myself
And everything I had made without help.
I used to think there were no tomorrows
But then you came my way.
Growing, growing old I know.
There is something, somewhere still to go.
Knowing, so much more to know
Fall in love again.
I'm going to start my life over.
And I will live my life again.
And I will love you more than words could say
And I will change the world!
I'm going to say that tomorrow
Was so much better than today.
And I will never look for any more time
Or any words to say.
I'm going to start my life over.
And I will live my life again.
And I will love you more than words could say
And I will change the world.
Wake up!
Scream out!
Come on baby, there's no doubt.
I thought that you would understand
There's no time left!
I'm going to say that tomorrow
Was so much better than today.
For we are never given any more time
Than any words can say.
A friend once told me, 'My life is now half over. My only goal is to make damned sure the second act is happier than the first.
I can't understand how you motherfuckers
figured all this shit out.
I can't wait to get my hands on all you
pencil pushing dealers of doubt.
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