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Phileas went around the world in eighty days.
I can do it in just one hour.
Just look around the streets and the cafes
See the people imbued with a special power.
A talent for coexistence
And a special persistence.
Look around the different nationalities
The different colours of race
Their different personalities
All the different shapes of face.
This is the city of my birth.
Grew up, and made in the streets
Born here, in all the mire and mirth.
Raised on stories of mighty feats
This is my town and city
With the buildings, old and new
So grand and pretty
Sometimes it goes bad, that’s true.
But the city rises
Interminably and inexorably
In different shapes and sizes
It still comes to be.
My city, my home.
I can do it in just one hour.
Just look around the streets and the cafes
See the people imbued with a special power.
A talent for coexistence
And a special persistence.
Look around the different nationalities
The different colours of race
Their different personalities
All the different shapes of face.
This is the city of my birth.
Grew up, and made in the streets
Born here, in all the mire and mirth.
Raised on stories of mighty feats
This is my town and city
With the buildings, old and new
So grand and pretty
Sometimes it goes bad, that’s true.
But the city rises
Interminably and inexorably
In different shapes and sizes
It still comes to be.
My city, my home.