The restless

Every city is the same
I mean women never look at you because you're wearing last years clothes
I mean hotels shine like distant stars when you're in a crowded room for two
I mean poems don't sell for pennies each you'd have better luck with one string guitars
I mean when you're sitting on a bench with a note book in hand scribbling you're greeted with blind stares
I mean
Every city is the same

But like the jazz greats that improvise a solo with a song written a long time
Ago I write of things gone by with a fervor of tomorrow I write of sighs
On airport lines the plane's about to go you dream of birds but the attendant won't let you know
How long to wait and I sing of disaster like missing your buss pass on a busy day
You had to make the interview the chance won't come again
And like the jazz greats croon I sing of tunes to dance to while waiting on your girl
Outside her work and looking at the stars
In a different city than the one you were born
And songs of Demi gods and prices can't
Catch the feeling of earning your pay put through
To pay the rent when the rent's due
And like the jazz greats go on and on
I'll keep singing till I end but the song
Will go on and forever we are legion we are
The restless stranded in countries so far
But each a song of struggle and smiles covered in sweat
Each a myriad emotions that one song's held
The song being life and you can be a tune
Or a dog confused howling at a concrete moon

But we are and that's the best we can do