Sick


When the city breathes you hold your breath.
The fog will penetrate your lungs
And eat away until there's nothing left.

From a garden wall a song is sung.
It hovers over lonely souls
And wrestles with the pylons' leaden hum.

At the traffic lights the notion grows
That nothing can hold back the death
And everything we knew was predisposed.

As she takes her pulse her senses numb.
The mask and gloves melt into one
And fuse into a new protective flesh. 

With the sirens on they feel at rest.
There's just a hundred metres left
But this is not the way their story goes.

Why the city stopped we still don't know.
They say it tired of everything
And simply couldn't face another day.

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