Insiders

Diamond chains and golden pain, the dreamer hopes for
Darling it ain’t worth the sticker price
Spending by the hour, what your labor gets you
Calculate the value of a life

Love for mere location, geographic romance
Imperfection anthropomorphized
Nocturnal solitude, the lights, an urban slowdance
Beauty from the hands of humankind

Bleeding in plain sight, don’t give up your crown
The boys in blue are just playing around
Oh sometimes the city gets me down
Words won’t save you, don’t you see that now?

Built upon the backs of those who tried believin’
A monument to greed and greener sight
Light for all the world, she is a global beacon
She looks prettier through bourgeois eyes

Bleeding in plain sight, don’t give up your crown
The boys in blue are just playing around
Oh sometimes the city gets me down
Words won’t save you, don’t you see that now?