the camera eye

Bir rush şarkısı. 1981 yılında çıkan moving pictures albümünde yer alır.

grim-faced and forbidding,
their faces closed tight,
an angular mass of new yorkers
pacing in rhythm,
race the oncoming night,
they chase through the streets of manhattan.
head-first humanity,
pause at a light,
then flow through the streets of the city.

they seem oblivious
to a soft spring rain,
like an english rain
so light, yet endless
from a leaden sky.

the buildings are lost
in their limitless rise.
my feet catch the pulse
and the purposeful stride.

i feel the sense of possibilities,
i feel the wrench of hard realities.
the focus is sharp in the city.

wide-angle watcher
on life's ancient tales,
steeped in the history of london.

green and grey washes
in a wispy white veil
mist in the streets of westminster.
wistful and weathered,
the pride still prevails,
alive in the streets of the city.

are they oblivious
to this quality?
a quality
of light unique to
every city's streets.

pavements may teem
with intense energy,
but the city is calm
in this violent sea.