We Used To Own The Night

By EleCivil

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  1. Spoke in code and double-dares
  2. And magic-marker murals
  3. The ink we let lie on the stairs
  4. It claimed the crawlspace crucial
  5. Critical, cautious crawl
  6. Memorize the floors
  7. No battle cries but nervous sighs
  8. Of shaking saboteurs
  9.  
  10. Don't use your given name out here
  11. It slows your step to the stars
  12. For all our plots and diagrams
  13. We only breathe when it's dark
  14. It's been a year, but just today
  15. Swear we'll still run this block
  16. From the basements to the barricades
  17. From dusk 'till five o'clock
  18.  
  19. Only on this street these lungs
  20. Attack this Akron air
  21. Rip it in past teeth, this tongue
  22. I taste this street, I swear
  23. The sidewalk-stripes and sewer pipes
  24. Each step seduced a sketch
  25. We wore our symbol on our backs
  26. Our code-names on our chests
  27.  
  28. We would swear that we could race the sun
  29. Run West and never age
  30. Exist between the satellites
  31. And never face the day
  32. But we never made it off that street
  33. The crawlspace always jeered
  34. And we found ourselves downstairs, asleep
  35. We'll try again next year
  36.  
  37. But now the coats that showed our signs
  38. They don't fit any more
  39. We used to stomp and sing and cry
  40. But now we only snore
  41. I guess that we outgrew it all
  42. And I'm not sure what to blame
  43. We lost our symbols, lost the night
  44. We lost our secret names