City Rites
- Genre: Jazz
- Time: 03:41
- Released: 1/1/2006
- Label: Jazzy blues, or bluesy jazz?
- Album:
- Credits: Words & Music: Scotious, Guitar & GB: Scotious, Vocals: Ruthie!
- Artist: Scotious
- Location: Ann Arbor, MI
- Sounds Like:
Song Information:
You know how it is when your love is in another city (in this case Philly), and all you want to do is get there. Now. You do know, don't you?
A simple arrangement I tried not to muck up with too many parts.
Thanks to daughter, Ruthie, for the vocal. God, I wish I had pipes like that!
Song Lyrics:
City Rites (Scott Mann)
Under a city I have not seen I wait, to transfer
Above me I picture the square of city hall
The flower girls selling last minute marigolds
I follow subway people and am lost
A soft man's face guides me to my train and into small talk
We are swallowed by the subway and disappear
He asks me how they travel where I live
Above the screech train I tell him they drive and drive
He asks, "My friend are you friends with the saviour?,
come sit with me."
I nod "no" and a leather bible is at my face
He says, "Read this but put your name where it says world."
The subway jerks to a start and God made me,
God made me
And in his image he made you too
And created this aching to get next to you
I would travel the streets through the smoke and the heat
Can't you see he made us all to heed the call
INSTRUMENTAL: repeat verse and bridge, then
Can't you see he made us all to heed the call
Above the roar he yells a sermon in my ear
It begins to float away but reappears
I thank God we're close to Broad and Allegheny
Left open to the faces I think of you
The sermon ends at my request my stop is next
I emerge into night with my suitcase and guitar
Li li li li li li li li li
Fall into your arms taste the city and you
Taste the city and you
And in his image he made you too
And created this aching to get next to you
I would travel the streets through the smoke and the heat
I'm almost here I've come a way but I'm here to stay
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