Civic Center

Lyrics

[Intro — instrumental only, no vocals]
[a gavel pounds and a room rises; the beat builds]
[Instrumental build — still no singing, let the groove settle in]
[Instrumental — the gavel and the strings carry it alone]

[Verse 1 — vocals enter at last]
Down by the Center where the verdicts ring,
the civic heart and the city machine;
pound the gavel, call the room to rise,
Civic Center weighing the compromise.

[Chorus]
Civic Center, Civic Center, gavel and call,
order in the court, stand up, stand tall;
bang, bang, bang, let the ruling land,
the anxious civic beat of a city's hand.

[Verse 2]
Near the old Sears where the Ponce lights burn,
the public square where the wheels still turn;
every motion carried, every order kept,
Civic Center where the city never slept.

[Chorus]
Civic Center, Civic Center, gavel and call,
order in the court, stand up, stand tall;
bang, bang, bang, let the ruling land,
the anxious civic beat of a city's hand.

[Outro — vocals stop here]
[Instrumental — the gavel rides out alone, no more singing]
[Long instrumental outro — the groove fades slowly all the way down to silence]