Rotary Park Songtext
von Joe Hawley

Rotary Park is safe after dark
Neighbors off porches, the playground is stark
Wine stained a vacant old basketball court
Dwellings surround a municipal fort
Don′t mind the stories of triumphs and glories
Rotary Park is the jam after dark

Be, leave and decide, stay and be blind
Easy to claim when you've places to find
We nearly died, be that inside
Grinding the gears of all tides

Rotary Park is at peace after dark
Chief Pontiac stamped his name on the mark

Mystery buried (Be, leave and decide)
In flat dominos (Stay and be blind)
Twilight atuned to (Easy to claim when)
A creeping repose (You′ve places to)


Don't mind the lion hid dreaming of Zion
Rotary Park is ablaze after dark
Rotary Park is swell after dark
Coveting woes in bureaucracy throes

Trials by pairings with (Be, leave and decide)
Blood on the psyche (Stay and be blind)
Victory airings not (Easy to claim when)
Sponsored by Nike (You've places to find)
Purple potato-faced (We nearly died)
Comrade ascends (Be that inside)
Vultures encircle (Grinding the gears)
Abandoned amends (Of all tides)

This morning I woke from a nightmare and fell out of bed
And Lo! the ghost of a man ages thought to be dead
A smile and a ribbon he wore with a dutiful pose
A wink, a prick from the thorn of that beautiful rose

Rotary Park is a gas before dusk
Don′t mind the four savage young horsemen of musk