Moon over colorado river
sent shivers down my spine
and now i know: when the neon signs glow
they mimic the stars in the sky when they shine
like Nebuchunezzar, I built castles in the desert
well, you know people, they think they’re awful clever
salt lake city looks so pretty in a wasteland
of worthless endeavors,
whenevers
and nevers
I too have searched in vain for my place beneath the sky
i don’t know, guess my lamp’s burning low
kerosine tears welling up in my eyes
I’ve squinted from lofty peaks
plotting the sprawl that I’ll build my Empire of lies on
Still Salt Lake City is looking so pretty
perched like a bird upon the horizon
and someday our civilization
will crumble and coil and join the rocky soil
and some future dictator some thousand years later
will find our remains while drilling for oil
The archaeologists will furl their brows
and time will forget our names,
like babylon before us
our bones’ll be buried but
redemption will never be ours to claim
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