Rosemont-Frontier Ruckus

[ti:Rosemont] [ar:Frontier Ruckus] [al:The Orion Songbook] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rosemont - Frontier Ruckus [00:14.97]Oh I know everybody here's been [00:18.14]Dying to get back to Rosemont Street [00:21.63]But that road was made of flesh [00:23.95]And now it's dead and now it's beat [00:26.94] [00:27.61]The sun burnt past every rock [00:30.20]Across the street from that cracked lot [00:33.45]Detroit air just breaths away [00:35.97]And that sun died in a petrified way [00:39.69]Onto the driveway [00:42.48]Table napkins blown away [00:44.96] [00:45.89]Into the alleyway and summer [00:49.12]Is the strangest time of day [00:51.88] [01:03.49]I've seen beauty far upstate [01:06.09]A century is all it takes [01:11.16] [01:13.81]To turn a homestead to the ground [01:16.50]But there is one thing that I found [01:19.81]I ain't seen these things in vain [01:23.38] [01:28.80]And deep outside the siren's wailing [01:31.80]Far from me on the still night [01:34.79]Through the yards the spores are sailing [01:37.90]On the toes of those dreams in flight [01:41.26] [01:42.38]To the north back and forth [01:46.48]Our moments make us off-ramp islands [01:49.69]Where language tramps falls to silence [01:54.28]To forget the T V set [01:58.58]And images of stranger feelings rape [02:01.93]Our walls and wallpaper our ceilings [02:07.09] [02:16.66]I've seen beauty far upstate [02:19.34]A century is all it takes [02:24.21] [02:26.87]To turn a homestead to the ground [02:29.48]But there is one thing that I found [02:32.81]I ain't seen these things in vain [02:36.32] [02:43.45]I was born to the lawnmower's crying [02:49.00] [02:50.51]And the drying of our gilded lot [02:54.39] [02:55.49]Trust in God when our roofs are sighing again [03:02.60]And the hill is crying thanks a lot [03:06.33] [03:07.50]Watertowers are drunker than grandfathers [03:15.04]But they're equally happy [03:18.59] [03:19.69]All that's golden was once eternally unfoldin' [03:25.83] [03:26.82]Now dusktime is the glimpse to see it [03:34.29] [03:39.53]But I'm a burstin' piece [03:41.45]A questionin' priest [03:42.83]Like a politician out east [03:45.44]I've seen swimming pools full of darkness [03:48.90]On the brightest moonlit nights [03:51.09]And I've seen fairgrounds [03:53.18]Heard their sounds [03:54.69]In that ground lies just what I've found [03:57.44]Basements are now all we got [04:00.14]With decade shades and days that rot [04:03.30]Landbirds flew over my head [04:06.17]Flag at half mast no one is dead [04:09.10]Oh I know that that's not true [04:12.09]But we're so desp'rate [04:13.51]What else can we do [04:16.07] [04:27.07]I've seen beauty far upstate [04:30.36]A century is all it takes [04:35.17] [04:37.67]To turn a homestead to the ground [04:40.36]But there is one thing that I found [04:43.77]I ain't seen these things in vain [04:47.39] [04:50.05]I ain't seen these things in vain [04:53.50] [04:56.31]I ain't seen these things in vain [05:02.11] [05:02.69]I ain't seen these things in vain [05:06.73] [05:08.85]And everybody dying here has [05:12.38]Made it back to Rosemont Street [05:15.38]The roses shake the sidewalk aches [05:18.51] [05:19.09]And Detroit air is hissing at our feet