The title is from a film-noir movie. Billy came up with gripping mediaeval/theatrical/metal-type music to draw you into the darkness of the psyche. ;)
Music/arrangement/production: Billy Playle
Vocals: Piyali Gungaly
Lyric: Donna Devine
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The Beast of the City
V1
His is the blackest
Of gifts to be given
He holds with no guilt
No sins to be shriven
He slouches, he crouches
On dank city streets
Gliding, hiding
Wherever it's bleak
Chorus
The beast of the city
Is biding his time
The thoughts in his head
Are beyond mortal crime
He'll strip your soul naked
Then feed on its essence
Leaving you quaking
And pale in his presence
The beast of the city
Is biding his time
V2
His is the promise
Of grief and of losing
He barters in pain
Leaves open wounds oozing
He wallows, he swallows
The stench of defeat
Stinking, slinking
Where lost humans meet
Chorus
The beast of the city
Is biding his time
The thoughts in his head
Are beyond mortal crime
He'll strip your soul naked
Then feed on its essence
Leaving you quaking
And pale in his presence
The beast of the city
Is biding his time
Bridge
Only a pure heart might save him
But where's the pure heart
That would brave him?
Chorus
The beast of the city
Is biding his time
The thoughts in his head
Are beyond mortal crime
He'll strip your soul naked
Then feed on its essence
Leaving you quaking
And pale in his presence
The beast of the city
Is biding his time
© 2014 Donna Devine
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