Genesis - The lamb lies down on Broadway

[Luca Canetti]

And the lamb lies down on Broadway

Early morning Manhattan,
Ocean winds blow on the land.
Movie-palaces now undone.
The all-night watchmen have had their fun.
Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show
It's the same old ending - time to go
Get out!
It seems they cannot leave their dream.
There's something moving
In the sidewalk steam,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway

Night-time flyers feel their pains
Drugstore take down the chains
Metal motion comes in bursts,
But the gas station can quench that thirst.
Suspension cracked on unmade road
The trucker's eyes read "Overload"
And out of the subway
Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid
Exits into daylight, spraygun hid,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway

The lamb seems right out of place,
Yet the Broadway street scene
Finds a focus in its face.
Somehow it's lying there,
Brings a stillness in the air.
Though man-made light, at night is very bright,
There's no whitewash victim.
As the neons dim, to the coat of white.
Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid
Wipes his gun - he's forgotten what he did,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway

Suzanne tired, her work all done,
Thinks money - honey - be on neon
Cabman's velvet glove sounds the horn
And the sawdust king spits out his scorn.
Wonder women you can draw your blind!
Don't look at me! I'm not your kind.
I'm Rael!
Something inside me has just began,
Lord knows what I have done,
And the lamb lies down on Broadway.
On Broadway -
They say the lights are always bright
On Broadway.
They say there's always magic in the air.
They say the lights are always bright
On Broadway.