Smokestack Lyrics

I've seen better days and you've seen better days too

We've known life outside genetic memory - nostalgia's clue

But also we've been here before we've cleaned this room we've swept this floor

Maybe we've seen a thousand faces visited a thousand places

But never met a soul

There's a city of light

Built from scorched earth

It'll have you for a price

Show you what you're worth

I've seen better days and you've seen better days too

There's a city of light

Built from scorched earth

It'll have you for a price

Show you what you're worth

Can you see it coming down

Fire from the sky

It'll burn it to the ground

Build a house of light

There's a smokestack in the center of the city

And the metro rides straight inside

It circles seven times around

A black burning pile

There's a smokestack in the center of the city

An obelisk of energy

This is urban necromancy

We're wide awake but we can't see

There's a smokestack in the center of the city

People come from all around

Sacrifice their eyes and lungs

Just to have food in their mouths

There's a smokestack in the center of the city

And the metro rides straight inside

It circles seven times around

A black burning pile

There's a smokestack in the center of the city

A smokestack

There's a smokestack in the center of the city

A smokestack