Still Life With Chrysler Building

from What Didn't Quite: The Nearly Songs by Chris & The Ifso

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STILL LIFE WITH CHRYSLER BUILDING

Still life with Chrysler Building
Bright sun on icy pane
Snow on Bleeker, Steam in Brooklyn
Can’t believe I’m here again

It’s been a few years since I’ve been walking these amazing spaces
Lower East Side, Greenwich Village taking notes and drawing faces
Reading By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Dreaming American Dreams but I hardly slept
Remembering when somebody said that time,
Of all the cafés in the all the world you had to walk into mine

Still Life with Chrysler Building
Black lines on winter snow
Saul Steinberg made the drawings
Of the places where we go

On the ferry on the boardwalk, walk with Anna, Coney Island
Down by Dumbo, Soho, Moma, In the subway, on the Highline

All these American names will fade away
As the earth realigns and the green turns to grey
The big chill kicks in - the world rearranges
All blown away as everything everything changes

Still life with Chrysler Building
Bright sun on icy panes
Snow on Bleeker, Steam in Brooklyn
Can’t believe we’re here again

My friend Chunk says it’s all changed since he came over in the Eighties
Money talks and muggers just can't afford the rent these days
Kids in hoodies on their cell phones making calls and taking selfies
Still got things to say
We’ve all got things to say

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from What Didn't Quite: The Nearly Songs, released October 7, 2016

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Chris & The Ifso London, UK

Digital writer and nearlyologist Chris Ifso makes digital and transmedia fiction including songs, sound, live workshops and performance. The Ifso Band are Chris on ukulele, Alistair McEachern on bass, Abbie Coppard vocals, Iain Stewart on guitar.

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