white city us! among men! in the plans of shifting lime we! stood beside! a foundation of space and time what would you say to a city built in jackson park electric castles and a promise kept of highest art CHORUS: in our white city ______we'll stroll together ______ streets of wax ______ streets of plaster ______ our white city ______ white with wonder ______ heights of greatness and ______ nights asunder down! to the wire! time is running out on our project world! look to us! find a model of what's not thought yet CHORUS how beautiful is beauty when it's only temporary a decade a century stands still in the white city of our will raise! and be raised! our hands face up and our faces forward show us the beauty! show us where to aim our story CHORUS + in our white city ______ of domes and girders ______ we can fall but ______ the fall wont hurt us © 2005 Erin McKeown