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Welcome to Vancouver

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Welcome to Vancouver,
I'm the traffic-stopper.
Welcome to Van-city,
let me be your guide.

Two yrs I've walked these streets,
shot them every which way I can
spoken to and connected with the people.
All my life I've lived in this province,
always I wanted to live in the big city.

Ask me and I'll tell you the truth
about the wonderful 2010 city.
I'll say what's behind the hype and talk
about this lovely place.
Let me say it's not everybody,
maybe it's just the corporate corrupt powers that be.

When the light hits her,
she's a beauty.
But lurking in the obvious shadows
is the very ever so nasty about Van-city.

I've shot her everywhich way
I've walked the streets
I've connected to and with the people.
All of them,
not just the pretty few that walk RobsonSt.

The city that's says it's about being Zen,
where yoga's a fashion
when posers pose without grasping the deeper meaning.
Spirit, Mind and Body
but what about the origins of all that.
Heaven forbid we mention Buddha in Van-City.

It's built well,
the planners designeed her to look very pretty.
Too bad, so much of her is empty.
There's people aplenty,
there's also blindness and apathy.

It's not hard to see,
just walk the streets and look closely.
Take in the people not the stores and scenery.
See those who live here,
look at they who make this place a city.

Such a nice city,
they sent away their people problems.
Put them on a bus and dumped them in a different town.
Just ignore and displace the addicts and whores,
when the city streets help make them as they are.
Thanks for the gardens Mr.Mayor,
they mean little to solve the underlying issues.

Sorry to say that the art scene is dying.
Yes it is, if it ever even was.
Musicians and talent there's more than a few,
it's just a scene corrupt too.
The true talent has to fight to get through,
even then they've gotta kiss it to get noticed.
Warhol said it,
and he said it true
art has no place in Van-city.

For the people I've stayed,
to do what I said I'd do
help make it a better home for those who live here.
To take the city back from the corrupt
and give her back to the people.

When the world comes here
what will they see.
A city half a city,
where we can't even look after our own.
Sure they'll see a pretty city,
they'll also see a bankrupt city
that had to create the illusion they see.

Never said I didn't love her,
I've proven I more than do.
I loved an illusion,
I still love her.
For the people and for me,
I'm telling the truth about Van-city.
Not to disgrace her,
but to make her trully a city of beauty
on the inner and outer.
Maybe the truth,
will set her free.
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davidnk's avatar
wooW love it ! :)