Broken City lyrics

Song information

Artist: Audioslave
Album: Revelations

Lyrics

My city sleeps by the side of the freeway
A city of scraps
In the winter time she wore a yellow coat
Now there's nothing on her back
If a building falls you wouldn't care to notice
Unless you were in it
And no one cares about climbing stairs
Nothing at the top no more

Outside tripping in the broken city
Outside tripping in the broken city
I watch her bleed and crack
Outside tripping in the broken city
Outside kicking in the broken city
There's nothing wrong with that

Now the snow falls down like it's falling on an ocean
Dead and empty
By the railroad tracks where they used to go and come
Now they don't come back
You can hear the rust going up the throughways
And down the alleys where they stole this town from the frontier
I can seem them trying to steal it back

Outside tripping in the broken city
(Outside tripping in the broken city.)
Outside tripping in the broken city
I watch her bleed and crack
Outside kicking in the broken city
(Outside tripping in the broken city.)
Outside tripping in the broken city
There's nothing wrong with that

Now the sun won't shine on this part of the map anymore
When it's cold outside I see her hide behind the smoke stacks
Nothing grows, there's no gold rush, no miners, no revolution behind her
And the shipyard is a graveyard, no one will be trying to find her

Outside tripping in the broken city
(Outside tripping in the broken city.)
Outside kicking in the broken city
I watch her bleed and crack
Outside tripping in the broken city
(Outside tripping in the broken city.)
Outside kicking in the broken city
There's nothing wrong with that

There's nothing wrong with that
Outside tripping in the broken city
Outside tripping in the broken city
Outside tripping in the broken city
Outside. outside. outside. outside
Outside. outside. outside

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