Chinatown Gates

from Friends For Hours by Citylake

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CHINATOWN GATES

I walked across this city
Alive with flashbacks from east to west
Main Street glowed with Christmas lights
Shimmering through a blizzard
As a century stood still
My life rang like a countdown
Misused days and glorious nights with friends
Lovers and in-betweens come back
Some things only make sense when you know it’s the last time

Thinking of you past Chinatown Gates

Wide-eyed with a smile on my face
I stumbled through Sun-Yat-Sen Square
My head full of wishful thinking
A past I just tried to rewrite
Is it the alcohol speaking
Or am I way too sane for my own good
Misused days and glorious nights
Wasted clinging to the wrong dreams
Some things only make sense when you know it’s too late

Thinking of you past Chinatown Gates
Screaming your name in my head
Facing the world with my heart on edge

Could it all mean something new now?

Thinking of you (…) my heart on edge

And as the snow kept falling
My spirits sank and rose again
Back home, old songs playing on
I watched a thousand years wind down live
And I thought of everything
That came before, that’s coming soon
And the world got up on the same old land
One time zone at the time
But I only wished we were in the same one
That your soul was here,
Right now,
Now………..

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from Friends For Hours, released August 22, 2013

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Citylake Montreal, Québec

A Montreal-based quartet active from 2009 to 2019. After a few lineup changes, only bandleader Martin Saint remained from the early days. After the release of their 3rd E.P, To Love or Not to Care, they opened for BC's shoegaze band Did You Die and performed on Concordia University CJLO's Pancake Party show. Here are their three studio E.Ps, as well as the mini live album of their radio set. ... more

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