Oh I know everybody here's been dying to get back to Rosemont StreetnBut that road was made of flesh and now it's dead and now it's beatnThe sun burnt past every rock across the street from that cracked lotnDetroit air just breaths away and that sun died in a petrified waynOnto the driveway, table napkins blown awaynInto the alleyway and summer is the strangest time of daynnI've seen beauty far upstatenA century is all it takesnTo turn a homestead to the groundnBut there is one thing that I foundnI ain't seen these things in vainnnAnd deep outside the siren's wailing far from me on the still nightnAnd through the yards the spores are sailing on the toes of those dreams in flightnTo the north...back and forthnOur moments make us off-ramp islands where language tramps and falls to silencenOh to forget...the T.V. setnAnd images of stranger feelings rape our walls and wallpaper our ceilingsnnI've seen beauty far upstatenA century is all it takesnTo turn a homestead to the groundnBut there is one thing that I foundnI ain't seen these things in vainnnI was born to the lawnmower's cryingnAnd the drying of our gilded lotnTrust in God when our roofs are sighing, againnAnd the hill is crying thanks a lotnWatertowers are drunker than grandfathersnBut they're equally happynAll that's golden was once eternally unfoldin'nNow dusktime is the glimpse to see it...nnBut I'm a burstin' piece, a questionin' priest, like a politician out eastnI've seen swimming pools full of darkness, on the brightest moonlit nightsnAnd I've seen fairgrounds, heard their sounds, and in that ground lies just what I've foundnBasements are now all we got with decade shades and days that rotnLandbirds flew over my head, flag at half mast no one is deadnOh I know that that's not true, but we're so desp'rate, what else can we do?nnI've seen beauty far upstatenA century is all it takesnTo turn a homestead to the groundnBut there is one thing that I foundnI ain't seen these things in vainnnAnd everybody dying here has made it back to Rosemont StreetnThe roses shake, the sidewalk aches and Detroit air is hissing at our feet
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