Big City Dream-Modern Life Is War

[ti:Big City Dream] [ar:Modern Life Is War] [al:Midnight In America] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Big City Dream (大城市之梦) - Modern Life Is War [00:04.71]The last words I heard before I slammed the door [00:08.08] [00:11.35]You gotta be humble in this life [00:13.98] [00:15.92]But my shoulders tell me that ain't right [00:18.70]As I race down the stairs and step out into the night [00:22.31]I scan the city skyline [00:24.68]Smoking like a neon mechanized Christ [00:27.98]So I walk with intent towards my salvation [00:31.90] [00:33.15]Thoughts rise and fall sharpen my mind into a razor [00:39.87]I try to see into the future [00:42.12] [00:42.74]I try to sense impending danger [00:45.61]There's a bum on the corner with his [00:48.62]Shopping cart filled with plastic bags [00:51.85]Somedays I would wonder [00:53.90]How he got there [00:54.98]Not tonight I don't care [00:57.60]Steam rising up from the gutter [00:59.81]Shining in the headlights of passing cars [01:03.56]The sound of distant sirens drowned out by thick concrete walls [01:09.50]My state of mind makes me all [01:11.17]Alone on this platform in this subway station [01:15.25]If you can make it here no one will care [01:20.47] [01:21.10]I see faces cut by lines of weariness [01:26.18] [01:26.73]Intelligent eyes hardened by cynical resignation [01:32.59]I catch my reflection my face is changing too [01:38.19]I find the reasons while I suffer [01:41.36] [01:48.03]Just like all the others [01:50.47] [02:04.04]Up the stairs into a hazy dream [02:07.41] [02:08.38]I hear the neons scream [02:11.11] [02:11.80]I hear the billboards scream [02:14.50] [02:15.06]Fields of concrete stretching infinitely [02:21.36] [02:22.03]The industries that made us free [02:25.23]With money to spend on all the wrong things [02:31.59] [02:35.66]I get down on my knees [02:38.24] [02:39.02]The crowds rush past me [02:41.70] [02:42.44]I pray to no one and I feel nothing [02:48.46] [02:48.99]I get down on my knees [02:51.16] [02:52.24]The crowds rush past me [02:54.75] [02:55.51]I pray to no one and I feel nothing