hannahbolecter - the city (inspired by c.p. cavafy) Lyrics

You said I'll go to another country
I'll go to another shore
Find another city better than this one
Whatever I try to do
Is fated to turn out wrong
And my heart lies buried like something dead
It's like rain on my footsteps
Rain on the arch
Rain on all my hospital charts
And rain in my heart
And rain in my heart
How long can I let my mind molder in this place
Wherever I turn, wherever I look I see the black ruins
Where I've spent so many years
Wasted them, destroyed them
I understand if you don't have the time
But what do you have if you don't have your mind
You won't find another country
Won't find another shore
The city will always pursue you
You'll walk the same streets
Grow old in the same neighborhoods
Turn gray in the same houses
There's no ship for you, there's no road
Now that you've wasted your life here
You've destroyed it elsewhere in the world