Now there's a City with everything,

diamond dogs and Art...

Basque separatists and Irish pubs,

Flemings, with horses "sans la cart"

chancers looking for a start...

 

A crossroads where the compass spins

giddy with the roulette chance,

where keys fit cuffs and slaves begin

and lives are stripped

where strippers dance...

 

Antwerp-Noord, where worlds collide

stoofvlees frites and Yemen’s best,

on streets where

street kids cannot hide,

fluorescent ragged safety vests...

 

Now there's a city with everything,

blood diamonds

and a blackened heart...

fifty miles from union stars

with all its people broke apart.