White City Lyrics - Pogues

Here a tower shinning bright 

Once stood gleaming in the night 

Where now there's just the rubble in the hole 

Here the paddies and the frogs 

Came to gamble on the dogs 

Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago 

Oh, the torn up ticket stubs 

From a hundred thousand mugs 

Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain 

And the car-parks going up 

And they're pulling down the pubs 

And it's just another bloody rainy day 

Oh, sweet city of my dreams 

Of speed and skill and schemes 

Like Atlantis you just disappeared from view 

And the hare upon the wire 

Has been burnt upon your pyre 

Like the black dog that once raced out from trap two