Beneath the steam sky

  The smell of coal gas

  And oil burned on streets

  Birds of feather

  Boats of the blue

  Under the sea, above the mist

  Crossing the lost weather

  Of daylight stood at lull

  Born from the hands of concrete

  Around the districts of a nonstop city

  Brick by brick

  Stone by stone

  Until they're numb

  The hands of the crowd

  Work at the Metropolis

  Hearts of steel

  Pumping like the engines

  Of railroads colliding

  From station to station

  Metal howling under metal

  The sound of a heartbeat

  Is nothing alike a mistreat

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  From master to servant

  Visions of ghosts

  Outside the factories

  Trying to find happiness in red

  Tired of expecting some reward

  In sight of no hope

  All comes into a rope

  Because nothing's perfect

  In this moving world

  The days before arriving at the chamber

  To enter the neighbor lands

  Along with her parents

  The world as it was a lready changed

  Even before the revolution

  Little Alice used to wander anywhere

  Pouring down like the rain

  Until she felt guilty

  Like an orphan in pain

  The straight looks coming from everywhere

  All day along to be exposed

  A child, like that

  Born inside a body seem as filthy

  As her face of rat

  Eyes with the sight of pollution

  A garbage to be disposed

  Skin tore apart

  Heaven found in her mother's arms

  In the depths of the eyes

  Tears had run dry

  Like words of sand, melted into glass

  To see the world outside

  Her father led an entangled life

  Like a brave soldier, he gave his body to the grave, she said

  The pulse from the arm whose feeded her faded

  A whole life ahead, burnt by the unforgettable fire

  Everyone is a thief

  In this criminal world

  Even god, in a little while

  Alice grew up as a woman

  And felt in love with everything

  Listening to the melody of a comet

  Crossing the skies

  Underneath the pale moon

  From the view of a telescope

  A romance arises

  Ephemeral as a star

  Magnetic poles apart

  Gravity acted in silence

  For the one whose arms of lenience

  Took her soul inside the width of a room

  It was a question of time

  For her finger sink

  Within the surface of the sea

  For her legs walk

  On the air she once breath

  Days later, poured down the rain

  Falling from the gray sky

  Every shiver colder

  As her body grew older

  Another tear of pain

  Felt from her mother's eye