City of Silk

This song I recorded in 2007, and is about my birthplace of Paterson, New Jersey, the "City of Silk". I used to go to the famous Passaic River Great Falls (made famous in the Sopranos, when the thugs threw the guy off the bridge)... anyway it doesn't have anything to do with the Sopranos, but just my thoughts when I returned to the bridge after 35 years.

City of Silk

I was born in the Heart of the city of silk
when the streets and sun and the sky were the color of milk
and I knelt on the ground in the shadow of the Great Falls spray
where the voice of the river sings on to the end of my days
on and on, on and on

So soon we've come to the river of time.

This house dates back to a '29 deed
come forth through the cause and effect of the fruit and the seed
met down at the corner junkyard of a lot unleashed
by the riverbank treadless tires scream out for relief
on and on, on and on.

So soon we've come to the river of time.

48 times around with a buzz in my ear
from a rock band and a gunshot and a full shedded tear
my memories wear and all in a big bamboo tube
threadformed in a figure 8 endless options menu

So soon we've come to the river of time

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posted by Disbro