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The City or the War Lyrics by Don DiLego

Photographs of 1971

2006

[Verse 1]
You're like a cigarette, out on a motorbike
Down a boulevard
As cold and black as suicide
If there's another way out
Then I'm dying to find it
And reason it out
But it's choking inside a broken song
[Chorus]
But maybe I'm not that strong
Maybe I'm not that strong
Well I know I can't afford
The city or the war
And it's trying to break my heart
[Verse 2]
It's like a masquerade, out in my own backyard
And I am very afraid
That I won't get very far
But I'm willing to crawl
I'm willing to find out what went wrong
No trouble at all
As there's a back door painted on my wall
[Chorus]
But maybe I'm not that strong
Maybe I'm not that strong
Cause I know I can't afford
This city or this war
This traffic in my brain
Is dying for something to say
And it's trying to break my heart
[Refrain and Coda]
And it's trying to break my heart (I know)
That it's trying to break my heart (I know)
That it's trying to break my heart (I know)
That it's trying to break my heart
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Don DiLego

Don DiLego

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"The City or the War" appears on "Photographs of 1971" in 2006.

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