Bedlam Bridge

Album: Blue Sky Mining (1990)
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  • In this city with no footpath there's a building with no people
    There is crime and gun decisions
    There's a street of heat and hawkers, there's a house of hope drifters
    There's a gang that shoots then listens
    There's a place that knows no poverty, a town without pollution
    There's a soul with good intentions
    There are canyons full of movie stars, churches made of metal
    There are mountains made of muscle
    We have leaders who are anxious, we have captains not courageous
    Captains tumbling into madness
    But there's a main who makes no enemies, a body never breathless
    No ambition ever hopeless

    Up on bedlam bridge somebody is waiting
    Up on bedlam bridge I'm shot to heaven
    Oh, up on bedalm bridge, waiting

    In these locked and shackled neighbourhoods, bridge and tunnel diplomats
    See the golden ghetto's creeper
    Crazy flags from history, songs for the White House gangsters
    Guns for hellgate railway sleepers
    But there's a main who makes no enemies, a body never breathless
    No ambition ever hopeless
    So how stands the city on this winters night?
    The city on the hill or so they said
    The snow is falling down around the armoury
    The city's closing in around my head

    Up on bedlam bridge...

    Drive, won't you drive the engines harder, drive
    Drive, won't you turn the engines over, drive

    (Hirst) Writer/s: JAMES MOGINIE, MARTIN ROTSEY, PETER GARRETT, ROBERT HIRST, WAYNE STEVENS
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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