White City-The Pogues

[00:09.99]Here a tower shinning bright [00:12.03]Once stood gleaming in the night [00:16.11]Where now there's just the rubble [00:18.66]In the hole here the paddies and the frogs [00:23.28]Came to gamble on the dogs [00:27.33]Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago [00:32.22]Oh the torn up ticket stubs [00:34.08]From a hundred thousand mugs [00:38.07]Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain [00:43.05]And the car-parks going up [00:45.48]And they're pulling down the pubs [00:49.35]And its just another bloody rainy day [01:21.12]Oh sweet city of my dreams [01:23.07]Of speed and skill and schemes [01:27.09]Like Atlantis you just disappeared from view [01:32.97]And the hare upon the wire [01:33.87]Has been burnt upon your pyre [01:37.89]Like the black dog that once raced [01:39.96]Out from trap two