The city was alive beneath its concrete and steel
It was buzzing on caffeine and little blue pills
It was hurting inside but it wore a game face
As it thought about moving to a new place
The city was ablaze with a new kind of love
Had to go under, around and above
Thirsty to find that magical touch
Never enough but it was always too much
Can you just hold me in your heart tonight
send me a signal through the fading light
There was a time, or was it just a dream
When it was all so quiet as a mountain stream
Peace in the valley and calm on hill
Before they came with plow and the mill
Soon the city took on all the familiar tropes
Overpriced apartments on stock market slopes
All twisted in a tangle of fiber optic thread
Painted over with a million coats of red
Can’t you just hold me in your arms tonight
stay here beside me through the fading light
Can you just give me every single thing
Seal it with a kiss and sign it with a ring
Every song is love song
If you listen close
Every heart is a bleeding heart
That’s the way, just the way x 2 ....it grows
The city had potholes and pitfalls and a crumbling overpass
It was covered in graffiti and broken glass
Rusting wrought iron rails passing through
Streets that were lined with lost revenue
But the city had a song humming in it’s wires
Made of moonbeams and madness and cleansing fire
There were violins, cellos and violas too
And the melody was stickier than crazy glue
Can’t you just hold me in your arms tonight
Can’t stay beside through the fading light
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