Transverse City

written by Stefan Arngrim & Warren Zevon 1989



Dark Victory Twins BMI/Zevon Music Inc. BMI







Told my little Pollyanna



There's a place for you and me



We'll go down to Transverse City



Life is cheap and Death is free



Past the condensation silos



Past the all-night trauma stand



We'll be there before tomorrow



Pollyanna take my hand







Show us endless neon vistas



Castles made of laser lights



Take us to the shopping sector



In the vortex of the night



Past the shiny mylar towers



Past the ravaged tenements



To a place we can't remember



For a time we won't forget







Here's the hum of desperation



Heres the test tube mating call



Here's the latest carbon cycle



Here's the clergy of the mall



Here's the song of shear and torsion



Here's the bloodbath magazine



Here's the harvest of contusions



Here's the narcoleptic dream







Told my little Pollyanna



Here's a place where we can stay



We have come to see tomorrow



We have given up today



Down among the dancing quanta



Everything exists at once



Up above in Transverse City



Every weekend lasts for months







Here's the hum of desperation



Heres the test tube mating call



Here's the latest carbon cycle



Here's the clergy of the mall



Here's the witness and the victim



Here's the relatives' remains



Here's the well-known double helix



Here's the poisoned waves of grain



Here's the song of shear and torsion



Here's the bloodbath magazine



Here's the harvest of contusions



Here's the narcoleptic dream



Here's the hum of desperation