Lyrics

[Verse 1] Here a tower shining bright once stood gleaming in the night Where now there's just the rubble in the hole Here the paddies and the frogs came to gamble on the dogs Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago [Verse 2] Oh, the torn up ticket stubs from a hundred thousand mugs Now washed away like dead dreams in the rain And the carpark's going up and they're pulling down the pubs And it's just another bloody rainy day [Verse 3] Oh, sweet city of my dreams, of speed and skill and schemes Like Atlantis, you just disappeared from view And the hare upon the wire has been burnt upon your pyre Like the black dog that once raced out from trap two