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can't calm down
I got them inner city jitters baby
Them funky urban sprawl shakes
And this tightrope that I'm walking on is surely bound to break
Look out

Gridlock

Warren Zevon

Transverse City

1989

stalls
I'm stuck on the edge of the urban sprawl

Gridlock
Up ahead
There's a line of cars as far as I can see
Gridlock
Goin' nowhere
Roll down

Cul-De-Sac

The Wonder Years

The Greatest Generation

2013

suburban concrete
From this careless urban sprawl.
I'm letting go.
You know we can't keep out of trouble.
I thought my kids would call you uncle.
I

this lurid urban sprawl
Could make it to 46 with a Babbitt house built of bricks, but I want straw
I’ll risk it all
If that wolf calls
You’ll see him

searching for your love, amidst this urban sprawl,

City lights, please lead me to you, that's my call.


Verse 2:

Every street corner, another story waits,

changed and grown across the years
And some have gone
And this city seems so small
For all the cars
And urban sprawl
But I am here so take me in
I know –

And a dream of waking up

When I look again
It's not there
A half moon upside down

We'll flee this urban sprawl
Branches catch our fall
Then we'll wait
For

of my vision
Still I feel like something's missing
Then a voice inside says "leave it all"
It's an endless grind in the urban sprawl

So I cut ties, say

habits with grand illusions
Catch me if you can inside the urban sprawl 

Never listen to the right brain
Left side is safe
Logically let’s terminate every

Check out or be kicked out
Urban sprawl killing it all
Check out or be kicked out
Pay to play or be laid to waste

Renewal is greed in disguise

Corporate America

Boston

Corporate America

2002

everything that stands
Fooled by the sales pitch for progress at a dizzy pace
We idolize the filthy rich for giving us synthetic taste
Computer calls, urban

The Answer

Bad Religion

All Ages

1995

you've got enough naivete
And you've got conviction
Then the answer is perfect for you

An urban sprawl sits choking on its discharge
Overwhelmed by

what I discovered
In my quest for ancient color

Negative capability
Ran straight through me
My soul a suburban sinkhole
A vast brutal urban sprawl

what I discovered
In my quest for ancient color

Negative capability
Ran straight through me
My soul a suburban sinkhole
A vast brutal urban sprawl

I talk like it hurts to talk, mascot of Murphy's Law
From the claw game at the Walt Whitman mall
To the worst curb cuts of the urban sprawl

Wayward One

Alter Bridge

Blackbird

2007

And they cry
And they call
As the wayward walk alone

City lights
Urban sprawl
In a place no one should know

Shown no grace
Shown no love

high.
Parks offer solace in the urban sprawl,
In the city's tapestry, diverse stories enthrall.

Coffee shops humming with life's conversations,
Subway

Diminishing Returns

Harvey Danger

Little by Little...

2005

revolutionary grammar
Concerning the burning of city hall
And urban sprawl and decay
(getting so old)
Farewell to the day
Of having it both ways
(So old)
Hell is

A promise of joy
It comes to nought
The search for a saviour
Leads only to failure
The urban sprawl
Rising to the sky
Everywhere  crawls
It brings

sway (male voice: we sway),
In the urban sprawl, we seize the day.
With each step, in the night's rhythm, we drum,
We sketch our fate, in the urban hum.

Heaven's Wall

The Devlins

Universal Records Pop Rock Sampler!

1998

Through the rise and fall, through the urban sprawl
You can have my sight, then we can see it all
In your neon dreams you will know what it means

Cul-de-sac streets and the urban sprawl
Your mind is at ease seen that you've come this far
Past the church steeples and down the boulevards

The seasons they

me on
Well you can try to outrun the urban sprawl
But brother let me tell you it’s a long haul

I spent three long years running backwards through

real-estate
Overpriced, no escape
Third-floor glass-filled walls
Above the urban sprawl
Meet me in the library
Pocket poetry
Drove the ninety-two
Still, I’m