Hey Ocean! - One City lyrics

One city sleeps, though lights never cease Astonishing me through clouds and over dreams One city fades For rent and maze Through turbulent stages One city unchanged One city hears It's children in tears Babies shed tears falling from their first years One city gone From night that one charm A love has been known, one city alone One city rests with rain and lust on buildings and curbs Well they screw without words These people's lives Cut with bad knives But who is to blame for one city and place Soul upon soul strive for this control The buildings will break They will find their escape from palms that sweat Forgive not forget the fingers that bleed One city in need I close my eyes I try to sleep But I just cannot seem to keep away the dreams Exhausted words attempt to teach Everyone seems out of reach They do not hear me They do not hear because they're weak I know exactly where they've been and where that dead end street leads I close my eyes and try to keep away from these tears, these fears And get out of these lucid dreams Wake up, look beyond the buildings that surround you Way up, you will find a world that will astound you (x4)