CITIZEN FISH LYRICS - Wet Cement

CITIZEN FISH LYRICS

"Wet Cement"

We went up to the building site

Saw the bricks and the concrete piles

And watched them all working

Building muscles and no-one smiled

We stood around and watched them

Staring back in complete contempt

I'm building a building

Signed his name in the wet cement



We walked through the cemetery

Social tombstones in black and grey

Someone had a bunch of flowers

Talking sentiments felt O. K.

We stood in the shadows

Feeling it was that time of day

When everything gloomy

Hits the light as it fades away



We came to conclusions

Knew that life was a paradox

So many illusions

Kept alive till the old ones dropped

Demolishing lifestyles

Building up all the tower blocks

If life is so sacred

Why spend it all in a man-made box?



We stared at the empty shells

Passed a smile and then cried a lot

While all this was passing by

No one stopped to see what they've got

They took it for granted

Used the space for a parking lot

We'll kick off the real world

Allocating the beauty spots

Industrial death camps

Man made something and then forgot

Knew what it should look like

Trod on nature and said "Well, why not?"



But you cannot replace it

Just take a photo and watch it rot

And bury the feeling

Till no-one knows what it really meant

Got caught in a landslide

And left a name in the wet cement