Detroit '67

Detroit '67 - Sam Roberts

I went walking at street level

Feeling strange and disheveled

Past the abattoir and the glory holes

Like a film noire in the starring role

To the side streets kept my nose clean

Tasted beautiful tasted obscene

Singing oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

This is Detroit see the skyline

A commotion on the assembly line

Raise a glass to the Ambassador

As she's moving you to the dance floor

Does anyone here tonight remember those times

Can anyone here tonight just tell me what they felt like

So many years so many lives

These are the streets where they collide

From Jimmy Hoffa to Cadillac

Some look ahead I'm going back

'Cause I'm just looking for some sounds

To ease the vice that squeezes us every day

This was Motown this was New France

Where the Chippewa did the firedance

That was long ago

This is here and now

But the memory still remains somehow

Singing oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

I can't tell you how this old story ends

I can't touch you now like they did back then

Past the child's play with the jump rope

Hear the gun play it's a tightrope

Does anyone here tonight remember those times

Can anyone here tonight just tell me what they felt like

Does anyone here tonight remember those times

Somebody call the riot police there's trouble down on 12th Street