Good for the City - Kraak & Smaak, Sam Duckworth

There was a fire in the alley

All the rats had fled the scene

The bottleneck of human traffic and their mobile phones

Could not preserve the memory

All of the photos and the stories

Quickly buckled under weights

The bureaucratic indignation

And its red ticker tape parade

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

I call upon the prosecution

Please identify your case

The star witness from the counsel

Quickly put them in their place

He laid his plans out on the table

As all our promises were sold

To build a temple of consumption

Where stood a temple of the soul

He said

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

The city

The city

Imagine it there

Imagine it there

The city

The city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

There looking oh so pretty

Oh you could hear the shrieks from miles

As they tore straight through the glass

A ghostly choir resurrected

As they await some bass guitars

Their gig is set upon the carcass

With broken hearts we watched fall

The cornerstone of this fine city

A monument to urban sprawl

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty

This would be good for the city

Imagine it there looking oh so pretty