Portrait of a Sleeping City
Cal Murphy
Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer
We left the bar at half past god knows when The bottles were all empty I drank the genie down with the rest And I know I take this road a little too often But a soul-searching wander under moonlight Is probably for the best I stumbled through the city streets at night Brain marinating In a whiskey cocktail of my own creation, then I heard whispers in the shadows Of the alleyways and darkened places Haunted by the faces of the memories From way back when We sang in that night We raised the roof, howled at the moon Between those towers of stone And we danced into that night My shadow disappeared into the darkness And left me on my own In alleyways untouched by moonlight I smelt the danger The enigmatic presence of a stranger passing by In the shadows, there was someone creeping, In doorways there were people sleeping, No roof above their heads And a rack of iron nails for their beds, yeah And we sang in that night We raised the roof, howled at the moon Between those towers of stone And we danced into that night My shadow disappeared into the darkness And left me on my own The headlights of the taxis Drown out the light of stars above Every heavy step drags me a little bit Closer back to those I love I know I'm as messed up As these city streets through which I roam Now all that I want is To be back home And we sang in that night We raised the roof, howled at the moon Between those towers of stone And we danced into that night My shadow disappeared into the darkness And left me on my own It left me on my own It left me on my own My shadow disappeared into the darkness And left me on my own The next day when sun breaks through The misty morning air The city puts its mask back on and Shines without a care But I saw its soul last night Or maybe it saw mine But in the misty morning sunlight At least everything Looks like it's all fine
Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer
Citation
Use the citation below to add these lyrics to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Portrait of a Sleeping City Lyrics." Lyrics.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 29 Apr. 2024. <https://www.lyrics.com/lyric-lf/13403377/Cal+Murphy/Portrait+of+a+Sleeping+City>.
Discuss the Portrait of a Sleeping City Lyrics with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In