Collapsing Cities

There was a one bedroom flat at the top of the road With fresh running water and a built-in commode And there were kids on their porches with fags lit like torches I though this will do for me So we crammed in the back dancing ten to the foot As the smoke filled the air we were misunderstood And the beats kept dropping the foundations like bombs Oh we knew that it couldn't be long And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody got out alive And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody's doing fine And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody got out alive And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody's doing fine There was a five bedroom house by the foot of the field With a well-mannered dweller quite substantial in build And there were barb wire fences and piles of expenses And Lawns mown impressively So they sat in the back and they started to eat Raise a glass to the host and his prosperity As the corks kept popping and they stuck up the band The foundations soon sunk in the sand And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody got out alive And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody's doing fine And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody got out alive And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody's doing fine And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody got out alive And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody's doing fine And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody got out alive And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody's doing fine And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody got out alive And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody's doing fine And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody got out alive And though the building collapsed with the night Everybody's doing fine