White City Lyrics

(Shane MacGowan)                           
                                                                                
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 its 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