Death Of A City Lyrics - Barclay James Harvest

I look down the street but there's no one there 

In the cold, in the dark, in the night air 

I call out for life but my heart feels despair 

There's no sign of a light in the cold dismal night 

The lights have all gone, the clothes are all torn 

The people are gone but the victory's won 

I call out for life but it's after the day 

Now the people are gone just the city alone 

Eyes look from the second floor 

Down to the street below 

Calm now the wind is slow 

See posters once on the wall 

Now washed away in the rain 

Peeling from buildings tall 

I'll follow you friends to where life never ends 

Make our mistakes again as our life lines descend 

Time is like dust and the dust is like snow 

As it covers the ruins of the life that you know 

Trees once green now turned to stone 

Objects that look like ghosts 

All of them overgrown 

Mist all sight and mind is blurred 

Lie on your back and cry 

Words uttered never heard 

I look down the street but there's no one there 

In the cold, in the dark, in the night air 

I call out for life but my heart feels despair 

There's no sign of a light in the cold dismal night 

The lights have all gone, the clothes are torn 

The people are gone but the victory's won 

I call out for life but it's after the day 

Now the people are gone just the city alone