Heatwave In The City
David Harley
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There's a heatwave in the city and the day drags on forever The tarmac burns through patent leather, clear through to the sole Ice tumbles through glass as the temperature soars And the dayshift leaves the nightshift to take over for a while The city sings at midnight to the well-fed and the civilized While waiters mop their faces in the kitchen, out of sight Small change pours in torrents over counters in the bistros And the moon hangs red and sullen in the dustbowl of the sky The city is on heat, bare-legged girls in summer dresses Dodge the lechery of workmen laying cable through the day But the night turns on the body to sweet pornography Passions feed on darkness and the body mutes the mind The city squeals at midnight in its pain and ecstasy The life-force surges through the veins and soaks the sheets The couples claw and couple and feed upon each other And still the hunger rages through the streets I saw a refugee from Galway with a faceful of stubble Singing sentimental songs in the underground today He's going back to Mother Ireland and the Mountains of Mourne And he only needs a bob or two to help him on his way The city whimpers at midnight in its apathy and squalor From a bench on the Embankment, from a derry in Barnes From a squat in Deptford, from the winos and the junkies From the homeless and the helpless, the hopeless and the lost A refugee from Calvary is preaching anarchy and anger Through his Multi-Megawatt PA And when the concert's over he packs his guitars and prophecies And goes back to his hotel to drink the night into the day But out there in the streets the word is out all over The heat are out for action in New Cross and Ladbroke Grove The temperature is dropping but the tempers are at flashpoint And no-one lingers on street corners if they're walking home alone The city screams at midnight in the agony of anger The rocksteady revolution pays its homage to its dead Where dreadlocks meet deadlock the shock tears up the flagstones And on their righteous anger the riot squads are fed The Klan charts fiery crosses cloistered in an upstairs room The architects of reaction spin their bitter webs Black and White scrawl their frustrations in blood across the charge sheets And no-one dares explain the chaos in their heads The city burns at midnight and the blood runs down the sewers In the ghettoes and the side-streets where the patriots have been Squad cars and an ambulance cut through the aftermath And tomorrow's front pages unfurl to set the scene
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