B Written by Sara So Far
With nothing we came
and with that we built a house
so high that its shoulders
now proudly tower above the crowds
We paved the streets with wisdom
from north, south, west and east
on these our children will march to war
or stroll forever in joyful peace
Hey, we’re a city full of strangers
All people on their own
We’ve come and flocked together
And now we are at home
We bring the seeds of memory
to be planted in a garden green
Many more stories high they grow
and hold a secret rarely seen
There are some dwelling up there
moving in their quarters
Finding existence in the trees that we speak
in the forest that grows from our hearts
Hey, we’re a city full of strangers
All people on their own
We’ve come and flocked together
And now we are at home
Words came with power but the rain was stronger
and washed them away, let me stand on the edge
as the clouds break open, my eyes they open
In walks the light that gives birth to the day
It’s the light we all drink, we all drink from the same
It’s the water that pours on each one like rain
It’s the pleasure of love but not without pain
Or we turn it around and it turns into shame
There’s the master and servant, existing today
in the alleys of one hundred nights on the way
There’s the getting lost in what’s needless to say
So let’s leave it unsaid and decide to stay…
…in a city full of strangers
All people on their own
We’ve come and flocked together
And now we are at home