Out on the coast at the end of the tracks
There's a pink cadillac of a city by the ocean
Where kings and queens walk the bay in a daydream
And everybody loves that smokey emotion
Electric sunset
Lotusland mindset
They're doing the shag
Man, they do the locomotion

It's so outrageous
So contagious
It's the strangest place I've ever been
But that's alright (that's alright!)
I'm sitting pretty (that's alright!)
We've got every colour of life out in terminal city

We've got Day-Glo rainbows
Tourists from Tokyo
A new generation of ponchos from Mexico
Downtown bluesuits
Working in their gumboots
And everybody's blowin' their horns down at Jericho
High priced lowlife dancin' with the Mayor's wife
And people always go where-ever they want to go

It's so outrageous
So contagious
It's the strangest place I've ever been
But that's alright (that's alright!)
I'm sitting pretty (that's alright!)
We've got every colour of life out in terminal city

So come on out on a westbound train
You can dance in the streets or complain about the rain
Stand on a bridge at the edge of the world
Come on boys and girls!

We've got beat box hip hop
Haircut hardrock
Country pickers just flippin' on their flat-tops
Soul providers
CC riders
A million bucks worth of music in the juke box
Jazz and blues man
Working on their dues man
They're going all night, boy, I don't think they ever stop

It's so outrageous
So contagious
It's the strangest place I've ever been
But that's alright (that's alright!)
I'm sitting pretty (that's alright!)
We've got every colour of life out in terminal city

But that's alright (that's alright!)
I'm sitting pretty (that's alright!)
We've got every colour of life out in terminal city

From "Tales from Terminal City"