Nowhere

from City of Oblivion by Anton Sword

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Nowhere

Where’s Saint Michael’s secret stairway
To the back room at McGlade’s?
Where’s the abandoned railway station
Underneath Trump Place?
After the city closed around you
And you made your crazed escape
Why do you still hover in the humid haze?
Where are all the murals from the lobby of three-twelve?
Where are all the pretty stories that we told ourselves?
What happened to the money? It’s quite a mystery
Where are all the pretty people we pretended to be?
Nowhere
Where’s our magic manhole to the room that mesmerized
And our precious pavement that glitters with a billion eyes?
That city vanished with you but a piece of you I kept
In the badlands of my heart where my old crushes crept
Nowhere
Hiding hiding in your bed sucking on a dream
Living in your head on a life-support machine
By the Apthorpe and Ansonia, by the old forgotten pier
On the broken promenade near where you disappeared
On the stoop outside your building on eighty-seventh street
My shadow’s hanging round the places we used to meet
Nowhere

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from City of Oblivion, released February 25, 2010

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Anton Sword Brooklyn, New York

NYC-based songwriter Anton Sword leads an indie synth/ dance/ new wave project with a shifting band lineup. Sword has toured the Eastern USA twice and Europe 10 times, playing for a small but loyal following. One of his ambient compositions runs in a loop on permanent display in NYC's American Museum of Natural History, scoring the ‘Astro Bulletin’ in the lobby of the Rose Space Center. ... more

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