Goodnight Gotham

from The Ghosts of Last Night by Alex Elbery

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I'll keep an eye out for you on Victoria street
but we'll stop making plans to meet.
I'll still fly my signal in the sky
but I might not get the chance to say goodbye.

'Cause I'm facing down an endless road
and where it goes nobody really knows.

So goodnight gotham
I've got to go
Goodnight, goodbye,
I love you so

My heart's been working overtime
in my chest like it was a diamond mine.
And oh, it's been getting underpaid
so I heard the word that he's going on strike today.

I'm sorry, I should've listened to you,
my little canary down there on a mission, you knew
that I always figured it couldn't get much worse
ever since I sent you down the first
but then again
it wasn't I that heard your insides bursting.

It was all for nothing
how was I to know?
of all the trouble, beneath the rubble
of your bones.

So goodnight gotham
I've got to go
Goodnight, goodbye,
I love you so

It's always in the darkest times
that you find diamonds in the mines
but now when I think of what it's cost me
of you, my little canary lost inside my ribcage
these are dark days.

I just climb the tallest buildings day and night
trying to set this whole thing right... but I...

I say;

goodnight gotham
I've got to go
Goodnight, goodbye,
I love you so.

Goodbye Gotham
how was I to know?
Goodnight, goodbye,
you're on your own.

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from The Ghosts of Last Night, released March 17, 2013

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