Skyline (Give Me Inspiration)

from Empire Way EP by Akiva

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Yesterday the only word I heard was imitation, everyone's got this mad fascination with getting on their mobile phone and trying to make cheap clone of the latest great inovation.

Nobody wants to get on the train anymore, nobody wants to stake a fresh claim. On the floor there's a stain from a glass of red wine that you spilt in a time when a smile was worth working for.

Spent the last year drinking from the same beer tap, chatting up the same dear in the same old crappy down town hole you should've left six years ago.

Would you paint another skyline with the sunshine at the top?
And would you walk along the front line at the right time?
Don't you stop. I'm looking over.

I've had enough of sitting round watching people pretending, everyone spending all of their time looking back in romantic eyes carving out cheap lies that they made a difference.

Ending on a low note sadly the nineteen nineties never did rightly continue to grow and innovate, now it's too late, reduced on the shelf pop has eaten itself, it turn out brightly.

Would you paint another skyline with the sunshine at the top?
And would you walk along the front line at the right time?
Don't you stop. I'm looking over. I'm looking over.
Are you looking over here with me?

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from Empire Way EP, released June 1, 2002

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