I thought I felt an earthquake I thought I’d had a stroke When the city full of people Turned to shadows made of smoke Now huddled with my wireless And an atlas of the Earth I’ll say my little words yes I Will spin the globe and watch it die And wish you all a fond goodbye For what it may be worth
The bombers have been sighted over Paris So now it’s just a question of how long And Pittsburgh, we’ll remember you And farewell Buenos Aires And no one’s left to see the fires in Hong Kong
So goodnight London, goodnight
There goes Salt Lake City Where my best friend Kelly lived And through the static I can hear The sendoff in Madrid And I kissed a girl from Moscow once But now the Kremlin’s ash So please accept my little blessing song I’ll sing to all the lost as long As I’m alive—there goes Saigon In the mercy of the flash
And the stars above explode eternal Ballet from the black And maybe this is fitting That we dance with light right back
I never got to know Australia Sorry that I never wrote, Shanghai Lower the curtain down on Memphis Snuff out the candle on Mumbai