Chicago by Elissa Eaton Lyrics

I walk the city at night
when the human race takes different form

an old man grins through yellowed teeth
exercising secret demons
and dirt clings to the bare feet
of the second beat generation

a girl in the distance sways
to a slow jazz vibration
and time is lost in her slow hips
and the man watching moonlight
play with her hair

the echo of footsteps on haggard pavement
fills my head with expansive thoughts
of loneliness

and tonight the neon lights buzz
for my private entertainment