Michigan Blues

LyricsA siren pierces through my slumberA fragile dream is torn asunderThe city of eternal summer wakesThe sky's a sickly shade of crimsonThe sun is struggling to limp inThe smog is wrapped around me like a cape    Alone in the city of glitter and gleam    I sold my soul to the dream    It turns out the promise is not what it seems    And now I'm adrift in the seaI miss the snow of late DecemberThe crackling of the fireplace embersThe dive bars where they all remember meMy hometown seems a distant visionThe streets that once felt like a prisonIt's feeling like the cell just followed me    I don't mean to say that the grasses are greener    But everything here is just brown    I try to hold on to my gentle demeanor    This city is bringing me down        I'm sad and homesick again, missing my Michigan blues        The Great Lakes horizons and skies in those Michigan blues And every star in Hollywood They wouldn't shine a tenth as good As a summer night on Independence Lake The same old stars are in the sky So maybe I'm the reason why My troubles hitched a ride along with meI can't erase the past I've hiddenThe ink is dried, the page is writtenThe story of my life has taken flightThis fleeting moment's all that matters'Cause I can start another chapterI can write the story as I like Get full access to L'artigiano Sonoro at tomzaneband.substack.com/subscribe