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Golden City
Walter Becker, © 1994/2018
I pulled my house down and made my invocation
To the clapped-out pleasures of a dying world
A whole new fresh for ’94 situation
A brand new city and a brand new girl
Then I went down to the Union Station
Where I stood there crying in the lonely queue
That’s when I knew my true destination
That’s when I come all over again in love with you
Poor little match-girl heart I thought I felt you beating
Against the crossed rhythms of your chorus line
I’m not hard of hearing there’s no need in repeating
I guess I already heard you now the second time
Spell out your demands on tattered funny pages
Hung out like proud banners in the cobalt sky
Strung out like a ribbon through the bars and the cages
We’ll read them all weeping in the salty by and by
Yeah
Kingdom come
Seven come eleven
Yeah
Kingdom come
Seven come eleven
So I quit the pale precincts of your endless evening
Of your long-suffering New Jerusalem
You won’t do me with any easy loaves and fishes
But hey that starlet rising, now that’s a nifty one
Last night I walked down to the near side of the river
There was a golden city shining in the sun
Where we all laughed and loved all our chump change sins forgiven
But you know me I’ll believe it when that day is come
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