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This City Is a Shambles Tonight

from Thieves of Chicago by The Great Crusades

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Modern life is a mechanical depression.
But he has the only radical exception.
But he must show self-control.
It’s what he really wants to know.

Looks like he might have had a bit of a rough night.
Looks like he might have got himself into a fight.
He forgot to comb his hair.
And he’s stumbling everywhere.

His city is a shambles tonight.
He’s walking near a river of light.
To find a girl, looking for a way back home.

His city is a shambles of light.
He’s shuffling to a devil’s delight.
To find a friend who will take him into her arms.

Hiding a secret, disguising his compulsion.
A private tragedy, inferior revulsion.
He can’t believe who he’s become.
How did his life become undone?

But now he knows that the end of it is near.
A way to get beyond the stagnancy and fear.
And now he’s whistling in the wind.
And now the next act can begin.

His whole world is a shambles tonight.
But he’s bathing in a river of light.
He’s heading out to do it all over again.

His whole life is a shambles tonight.
But he won’t lay down and give up his life.
Until he finds someone to help him do it over again.

His face reminds her of a place she used to know so well.
But she’s thinking that tempting fate will only bring her hell.
And she leaves before he can even tell her his name.

So like a fallen champion he keeps on walking.
Ignores the insults, and the pointing, and the gawking.
What’s a lonely boy to do?
See what you pushed him to?
Should he go to a new town to try his trade?
Maybe a deal with the devil can be made.
It could be so impromptu.
His lips were made for kissing too.

But now he’s dragging through the shambles tonight.
Now he’s lifting his hands to the heavenly light.
Look what you pushed him to?
What’s a lonely boy to do in the shambles tonight?

Lyrics © 2014 by Brian Krumm

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from Thieves of Chicago, released October 21, 2014

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“The Great Crusades look at life through a shot-glass lens, mixing anger, muscle and minor-key remorse like a roughneck Tindersticks with the bonus of a singer who’s got the tubercular pipes of Tom Waits and Axl Rose’s love child.” - David Fricke, Rolling Stone ... more

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