Kobo Town - St. James lyrics

Bright night no respite from the clamour Of the day, no relief, no delay in the drama On the street where the heat makes you sway and stagger Where light cuts through the night likea dagger Where sounds beat down on the ground like a hammer And signs catch minds in the glare of the glamour In the glitter of means beyond the dreams Of the people pa**ing down beneath Chorus St. James, night is falling down Like a blanket drawn over the town The whole place like a boil ready to bus' St. James pray for us St James night is coming down Like an eyelid closing on the town A crown is rolling in the dust St. James pray for us On this night between light and squalour Where all lose sight and shadows taller Than men, brought to life by the nightfall Pa** the hours limin' gainst the wall While power lines like vines hang over the scene A circus net to catch falling dreams While drains fetch rains to feed hidden streams And hope like a hammock hangs between Dusk and dawn, sin and grace Sky and earth and want and waste d**h and birth, toil and slumber The world above and the one boiling under Hope through the gutter, through the drain like a rat Silent as a shadow, like a roach through the crack Of the wall, of the house, of the shack, of the brain Creeping like a mouse hope has no shame And like light eats the shadow and rust eats the chain Like wind feeds the fire and rain drowns the flame Like love tames desire and love buries blame Hope has come down to do the same Down, down, ready to drown In the pool of our sorrow, in the sea of our wrong Like a pothound sniffing the ground for a bone Looking for something thrown away to call his own First stop rumshop, by the doubles man In the alley, behind the playwe stand Hope whispers into the air of night "brother, haul yuh tail this town is mine" St. James, night is falling down…..