Thursday, October 16, 2008

Cleveland Rising: Lyrics & Instrumental

Cleveland Rising: This City is Our Home
Lyrics: Alex Sukhoy, Music: Vanessa Daffron


Instrumental Video














Intro

From our steel mills

To our baseball
I’ve seen it rise
And I’ve seen it fall…

Verse 1
The factories closed down
Like a sunset in a fog

In this steel-belt Midwest town

We even burnt the Cuyahog

Verse 2

We were winners once ago

We just forgot how it felt to win

Myopic martership our Achilles

Insecurity, our sin

Chorus
In the churches we all pray
In this town I’ll always stay
Cleveland is my home


Verse 3
We have youth and sight and Splendor

Like a phoenix we will rise
No ashes blown into our river
No ashes blow, no ashes blow
No ashes blow, like they've blown before
Into our river

Chorus

In the churches we all pray

In this town I’ll always stay
Cleveland is my home


Verse 4

Now I confess to you, my dear

My precious city by the lake
I'll treat you better now

For you are no mistake


Chorus
In the churches we all pray
In this town
I’ll always stay

Cleveland is my home

This City is My Home