An I Am In Eskew fansong

Lyrics:
I am learning the steps, day after day
Dancing with doors and the rules they obey 
But the music evolves in unpredictable ways 
In my spiraling out ever lengthening stay 

In the city where it always rains 
Where the edges of bridges call your name 
A shifting anatomy of streets and veins 

Each day I unwind, one new piece at a time
Some grisly scene, written with me in mind
My hopeful hearts solved the puzzle this time
Though it’s foolish to try to do more than survive

In the city, where it always rains 
Where the soil and the water call out your name 
Intractably trapped and enraped in the game

I claw the walls till nails bend back 
Play though I know the deck is stacked 
Each time i’m crushed, still reach for that 
Illusion of a chance

In the city where it always rains 
And evening streets forget your name 
And you’ve lost every place from whence you came

Am I an insect on the skin
Of a creature I cannot hope to begin
To understand or find a reason for 
A city not made, not built, but born 

It’s a curious kind of bloodless hope
Burning when I slip back down the slope
Again, and again, and again and again
Can’t run from where you’ve always been

In the city where is always rains 
The abyss and the tower call your name 
Again, again, again, again
Can’t run from where you always been

Where it always rains

Skip K.D.