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# My City of Ruins
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2010/03/my-city-of-ruins/
- Published: 2010-03-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-08T23:51:56.000Z
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-04-08 17:47, #ichris

Senseless violence like [this](https://www.thestarphoenix.com/sports/StarPhoenix+journalist+hospital+after+assault/2630627/story.html?ref=chrisenns.com) is hard for me to understand. I cannot fathom how one person can leave another human being to die in the streets:

> Police arrived on scene, just blocks from Florence's Mayfair-area home. They found him conscious but unable to communicate and with a severe head injury, Voisard said. None of his belongings appear to have been stolen.

I would guess it was either a gang initiation (i.e. go beat up some random person and you're in our club) or just a purely random stoned/drunk/whatever assault. Whatever the reason, it isn't right.

[Eddie Vedder Sings Bruce Springsteen's 'My City of Ruins' at Kennedy Center Honours](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aelR842p%5F78&ref=chrisenns.com)

> There's a blood red circle  
> on the cold dark ground  
> and the rain is falling down  
> The church doors blown open  
> I can hear the organ's song  
> But the congregation's gone  
>  
> My city of ruins  
> My city of ruins  
>  
> Now the sweet veils of mercy  
> drift through the evening trees  
> Young men on the corner  
> like scattered leaves  
> The boarded up windows  
> The hustlers and thieves  
> While my brother's down on his knees  
>  
> My city of ruins  
> My city of ruins  
>  
> Come on rise up!  
> Come on rise up!  
>  
> Now there's tears on the pillow  
> darling where we slept  
> and you took my heart when you left  
> without your sweet kiss  
> my soul is lost, my friend  
> Now tell me how do I begin again?  
>  
> My city's in ruins  
> My city's in ruins  
>  
> Now with these hands  
> I pray Lord  
> with these hands  
> for the strength Lord  
> with these hands  
> for the faith Lord  
> with these hands  
> I pray Lord  
> with these hands  
> for the strength Lord  
> with these hands  
> for the faith Lord  
> with these hands  
>  
> Come on rise up!  
> Come on rise up!  
> Rise up