With the heavy notes of Sulphur in the air Make it harder to hear windsong While the distant fires burn to not dispel them Leave the sour notes to play Soon the waters brim with ships upon its harbour Obscure the culling of the sea While a distant siren fades into the ocean Of a dying song's decay All along the ditch Smell that salty breeze I can finally breathe A little better here than over there Think I hear windsong Think I hear windsong Sounding within Dry the branches and the roots worn-out with bending They'd be wishing for a songbird Deep beneath the farthest reaches of the ground Lay the toothless roots of wear While the shallow breaths of buildings suffocate us They are totems for the windless Sow the sourness of Sulphur in our sweating Evanesced into the air So we've built Expressways Snaking Through our Stacks of Boxed-up homes A city grown To eat its own To eat its own To eat its own