Transverse City lyrics

(Stefan Arngrim & Warren Zevon)
Told my little Pollyanna
There's a place for you and me
We'll go down to Transverse City
Life is cheap and Death is free
Past the condensation silos
Past the all-night trauma stand
We'll be there before tomorrow
Pollyanna take my hand
Show us endless neon vistas
Castles made of laser lights
Take us to the shopping sector
In the vortex of the night

(Warren Zevon)
There's a brand new shopping center seven
storeys high
There's bound to be a sale or two--something
we can buy
There's four floors of pak
king and we're sure
to find a space
We'll spend all the money that the government
doesn't take
Down in the mall
I'll be your man
We'll go shopping , babe
It's something we can stand
Down in the mal
We will abide
Up on the escalator

(Warren Zevon)
It's 5:00 P.M. on a weekday, friend
There's one of me and two million of them
The whistle blows and the factories close
There's a million more commuters on the access roads
The brake lights flash--there's an RV crashed
I'm in the passing lane going nowhere fast
The traffic crawls and the engine stalls
I'm stuck on the edge of the urban sprawl
Gridlock
Up ahead

(Stefan Arngrim & Warren Zevon)
There's a way to live that's right for us
Like Mayans in Manhattan and Los Angeles
I'm scaling up, I'm breaking down
And I'm doing lunch all over town
Networking, I'm user friendly
Networking, I install with ease
Data processed, truly Basic
I will upload you, you can download me
There's a long hard road and a full hard drive
And a sector there where I feel alive

(Warren Zevon)
Turmoil back in Moscow brought this turbulence down on me
Turmoil back in Moscow brought this turbulence down on me
Well you can talk about your perestroika
And that's all right for you
But, Comrade Schevardnadze, tell me
What's a poor boy like me to do?
Turmoil back in Moscow brought this turbulence down on me
Turmoil back in Moscow brought this turbulence down on me

(Warren Zevon)
(4-Aminobiphenyl, hexachlorobenzene
Dimethyl sulfate, chloromethyl methylether
2, 3, 7, 8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-
para-dioxin, carbon disulfide)
(Dibromochloropane, chlorinated
benzenes, 2-Nitropropane, pentachlorophenol,
Benzotrichloride, strontium chromate
1, 2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane)
I went walking in the wasted city
Started thinking about entropy

(Warren Zevon)
We keep walking away for no reason at all
And no one says a word
We were always so busy protecting ourselves
We never would have heard
And the rate of attrition for lovers like us
Is steadily on the rise
Nobody's in love this year
Not even you and I
Due to lack of commitment on both of our parts
We're going our separate ways
This show of indifference is breaking our hearts

(Warren Zevon)
I want to live alone in the desert
I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe
I want to live on the Upper East Side
And never go down in the street
Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation
Michael Jackson in Disneyland
Don't have to share it with nobody else
Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand
And lead me through the World of Self
Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one

(Warren Zevon)
When I was young, times were hard
When I got older it was worse
First words I ever heard:
"Nobody move, nobody get hurt"
It's the long arm, it's the strong arm
It's the long arm of the law
It's the long arm, it's the strong arm
It's the long arm of the law
After the war in Paraguay
Back in 1999
I was laying low in Lima
Working both sides of the borderline

(Warren Zevon)
I was counting on you
To stand by me
To see me through
I was counting on you
They moved the moon
While I looked down
When I looked away
They changed the stars around
I'm so confused
Don't know what to do
Don't know which way to turn
I was counting on you
They moved the moon
While I looked down
When I looked away
They changed the stars around
Can't you see me?
Can't you hear me now?