Designer Skyline

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Affection, the gifted architect
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Is making a draft and beautiful design
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The options and possibilities
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Are endless when we connect and re-align
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Collections of books and documents
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Arise and parade around my cluttered desk
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Reworking the math and measurements
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Until I'm convinced these plans are picturesque
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Like mountains in the Midwest
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Reaction creates the columns dark
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And wide like the roads around Fort Lauderdale
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The structures begin to take their shape
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Before I've designed the public monorail
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The turnpike and high-speed motorway
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Connect and enclose the quaint suburban streets
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The airport, the broad suspension bridge
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The lake and the beach where several rivers meet
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Compounded from the spreadsheet
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A city sparkles in the night
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How can it glow so bright?
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The neighborhoods surround the soft florescent light
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Designer skyline in my head
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Abstract and still well-read
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You went from numbered lines to buildings overhead