This city of heart attacks and divorces,
Pretty white horses and heavy rain
Pounding on luxury cars
As though they're not above the laws of weather
The skyscrapers spreading out like wavelengths
Across a sky of unnatural green
I stare from my backyard past the trees
Wondering what this all could mean

This city is trying to take me down
A peg or two, the bustling throngs
Of self-indulgent bodies
Push and pull their way through the streets
Duck into the alleyway and
Catch your breath, you and I
We're animated corpses
Holding on like hell to what we've got

And some days it doesn't seem like much
But whatever it is, it's all we have
So if it doesn't seem like much
Then it's all the more beautiful

This city is falling all around us
But I don't think we could care less
It's brought you to your knees
So many times you can't help but laugh
The bland austerity, like guns
Pressed in our backs, pushing us away
From the love of life we remember like
It was ten years ago today

This city, it holds our heart and soul
Keeps them locked up in its chest
But through cracked factory windows
And painted laneways, we catch glimpses
And we will fight to keep them safe
Hope to God that they don't age
And lose everything we've fought through
So much bullshit to achieve

"This city, it's gonna fucking kill me",
You whispered in a scream
It barely made a sound
But it resounded so loud it was deafening
And you've talked a game of leaving and
You wanna just take off to someplace else
Well if I didn't need you here
I'd probably pitch in for the flight

But this city of heart attacks and divorces,
Pretty white horses and heavy rain
It's where we're meant to be
Cos nowhere else will really fix us
So we'll just sit down by the river
And joke about all the pollution
In the water, in the air
And in my body for a while

And some days this doesn't seem like much
But regardless it's all that we have
So if it doesn't seem like much
Then it's all the more beautiful