City Streets

Lyrics

From the lush green To the sandy beach From the seven seas To the mountain peaks From the lush green To the sandy beach From the seven seas To the mountain peaks (Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, uh, yo) From the forest trees To the city streets Yellow sunshine bouncing off the concrete (To the city streets) London (City streets) Birmingham (City streets) Chi-Town (City streets) New York (City streets) Melbourne (City streets) Tokyo (City Streets) Oslo (City Streets) Berlin Ride the tubes and buses Commuting through the rushing Headphones bumping, bopping to the looped percussion Returning to that tribal nature I've been losing touch with The world's my oyster Every time I touch in I'm trying to reach beyond that Broaden my horizons Surely I'm alive for something more than 9-to-5ing Living for the city, now the city lives within me The pain, the pity, the glory; the story that she brings me From underground tunnel to skyscraper chimney I'm trying to scrap the paper quick, before the bailiffs get me I state it plain and simply, this nanny state can never babysit me Gentrify the ghetto, still, we're staying gritty So turn the shit up loud When the skies are overcast and all you can see is cloud We do the city proud Where every man's a king, and every park bench a throne And every corner like the courtyard of ancient Rome Lay your hat down and make it home And may God bless the child that's got his own, that's got his own I'm in the zone, I'm in the zone From the lush green To the sandy beach From the seven seas To the mountain peaks (City streets) Johannesburg (City streets) Glasgow (City streets) Amsterdam (City streets) Manchester From the forest trees To the city streets Yellow sunshine bouncing off the concrete (City streets, city streets, city streets, city streets) [Instrumental to outro: (When they crucified my Lord Were you there When they crucified my Lord?)]