Matthew Good - The Vancouver National Anthem lyrics

Out of the alleys, our needle strewn fields Into the sunlight that the brochures reveal Like snakes come for rabbits and rabbits for meals Where the oar and the axe flies Well this is our story (stick to it) but it ain't the truth Cause the truth's just for liars that need an excuse Around here love's a gangster and charity's the proof Where God deals on Sunday's under a rain burning roof It's five blocks a universe and aliens for each Like invisible ghettos of priviledge and grief And pinned up between them the carrion fly Living off skeletons of recycled lives This is the place you find out Well this is the way you find out We all live downtown Pay two even, no parking Live with a clown Step over ourselves We all live downtown Pay in blood, no parking Sleep on the ground Step over ourselves We all live downtown We all die downtown Step over ourselves Well this is our story (stick to it) but it ain't the truth Cause the truth's just for liars that need an excuse For a king crown a banker, the queen crown a noose Like heirs to a graveyard where the dirt's always loose It's five blocks a universe and aliens for each Like invisible ghettos of priviledge and grief And pinned up between them the carrion fly Picking off skeletons under a big northern sky This is the place where you find out Well this is the way you find out We all live downtown We all die downtown Step over ourselves