Steemit Open Mic Week 93 - Original Song (Explicit Lyrics): "Detroit City Boy"

Hey Y'all

Happy to be participating in week 93!

This new song will appear on my upcoming LP release - hope to make that one live sooner than later. "Detroit City Boy" is basically a slide show of images from my childhood in the Motor City. I was very sick when I was born, but I made it, and here I give tribute to one of America's toughest, most enduring cities for lending me its strength and its swagger.

Here are some words for you:

Born for death
I took one long breath
and screamed all covered in red
On the day I was born
And pulled like a thorn
from my mother in her
birthing bed
Pale sick baby born
three months early
blowin' incubator steam
I tried to die
in the bed where I'd lie
dreaming tranquilizer dreams
But all my nights were lit by the lights
of the highway hoi polloi
and I survived on junk and jive
like a Detroit city boy

I grew up and
I grew hard and
I got cool and wise
Stomped these streets
in victorious defeat
like a Jesus that refused to rise
Never understood
the bad or the good
or the difference between
right and wrong
on a downtown day
while the working girls sway
to another Stevie Wonder song
Like a Devil's Night
my rage burns bright
'cause I love what I must destroy
Jump back, Jack
I'm the Cadillac, heart attack
Detroit city boy

I don't know
Where to go
I can't see
You from me

Pipe bomb bangs
the drugstore gangs
are busy doing nothing at all
I'm on a nowhere ride
as the pimp 'vettes glide
passed scabs on a tenement wall
I need a narco nap
from this deathtrap rap
need something to put me to sleep.
Hustling something that feels like high
but I feel like I could weep
I'm the mean machine
in this gasoline dream
never known pride or joy
You're a smiling sucker
I'm the bad motherfucker, yeah
Detroit city boy

Here's the song:

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