Come & See Lyrics

And I said goodbye to the city street

To the angry gesture of people we meet

And I said goodbye to Hollywood

You know you won't but maybe you should

This place has taken a hole outta' me

And to the things we've learn to accept and then defend

To the mobile voice please don't touch me friend

And I said goodbye to the polluted city

The light left on to the prescripted pity

And people just being mean

Come and see

Come and see

And I said goodnight to the endless day

To the commercial lives the price we pay

I turned my back on my inner hypocrisy

To your last stand at truth and democracy

To hear the music of my soul not the radio

From Tobacco Alley and Aurora's bed

From the philosophies of love to where parting wept

From its monochrome smile that stole all your luck

From the needles and dreams and the belles of the viaduct

But my soul it needs to breathe

And I'm free

And I'm free

And back home I turned up my circus in a rented loft

No regrets but cigarettes and pipes that cough

Now I am a man who has seen the world

Where once I prayed for God and valued gold

Everything I have is inside of me

Between the rain and light of chinatown

I stood and watched a woman love a man

I remembered drowning to a sirens song

And the dolphins came and took me home

Allow my soul to breathe

Come and see

Come and see

But I missed autumn walks in a windy park

The tragedy of life and dogs that bark

To the exhibitions that command us to stand and stare

And provoke our thoughts that once were not there

And in the fish markets there's a ballet of the soul

To the book store and the scream of the ambulance

To the energy of love and intimate circumstance

To the grace of design and the morning post

And friends that come when your need is most

Here was everything you could be