WHITE CITY (2009)
Do you see it?
Gleaming by the lake
Fortune’s wheel grinding away
Who’d have thought it
Would only take
Two short years to seize the day
One square mile
Reborn anew
Not convinced it even exists
We doubt the miracles
We can do
The eyes deceive, the heart resists
What wonders
What wonders
Walking the White City
Worlds to explore
A year or two will it be there anymore
White City
Nothing lasts forever
White City
Overreaching
Ambition run wild
Icarus flying to see the sun
But how it gleams
How we’re beguiled
We’ll remember when all is undone
What wonders
What wonders
Walking the White City
Worlds to explore
A year or two will it be there anymore
White City
Nothing lasts forever
White City
What we give for the moment
To walk these avenues
To enter these halls
What we give for the moment
When we know that everything falls
What wonders
What wonders
Walking the White City
Worlds to explore
A year or two will it be there anymore
White City
Nothing lasts forever
White City
©2009 Z. Mulls
Erik Larson’s book about a serial killer at the World’s Fair in Chicago is a huge page-turner. I heard they were making a movie (which still hasn’t happened) and I wrote a "theme song lyric"