This About the City Too

Lyrics

[Intro] Okay, let's kick this whole thing off With a little public announcement Don't worry, this won't be here Next time you listen this The city is our worked out version Of the wild kingdom compartmentalized It's straw huts on acid And slave drivers These little stacks of squares And squares with twists in stacks We piled over mother nature's bubs Why, it's make believe And die when you're done dealing Now let's show a little decency On the or as a whole One what you name it City bus or solar system [Verse 1] The intro, one Cannot live alone in cities This is a common judgment error Or non-belief which happens and hardens all too often It's a symptoms world that makes city life (?) For instance i find it ludicrous and wasteful That i'm not on a first name basis with the same ten folks That catch our bus to work each morning [Bridge] When the world sets on fire, everyone will: "help me, help me, help me, help me" When the world sets on fire, everyone will: "help me, help me, help me, help me" When the world sets on fire, everyone will: "help me, help me, help me, help me" [Verse 2] Gypsy told me so his hung full of death in my face (?) While Jeff and i hid quiet on the bus His crows feet rotten teeth and made me feel self-conscious Penny for your thought which pulled a mask And all the people of the tuesday bus Fell one lonely story from their face Gypsy got us got us all with our- With our own doing He's the homeless man He does not live alone [Break] This has got to stop And if it doesn't you just wait and hear what happens Here's what happens Sometimes people make their face like this in the city [Verse 3] Aaaah! Two: you can't say you don't know How as you get older how you need Someone or place or thing that did it for you Who knew You meet a good one-hundred eyes a day or even more That's around fifty people average on the daily in the city Not a whole lot i might add And the ones you met before you stop and talk to Now i know not always, some are bad But the rest you let go past No matter how much it felt Like you had in common, past Could they have been a friend? And we don't meet these people Out of fear or fear of fear Or lack of love or quality A human kind of x-ray vision It's a shame, a homemade belief shut-faced shame (poor people) Now i can't say i know of a cure, developed it Or am on the team that's on it, day and night Aaaah! [Bridge] World peace is like a fountain of youth You can lead a horse to water But you can't make it you World peace is like a fountain of youth You can lead a horse to water But you can't make it you That's right, world peace is like a fountain of youth You can lead a horse to water But you can't make it you [Verse 4] Three: there is no three, or one or two for that matter And i lied before, about the intro Because this is all public announcement Of the meant unsaid and kept behind doors Let it be said butterfly Someone once said: "being part of something means There's something all around you, city, bus, or solar system" Someone once said: "there are little things one can do Believe, to make happen better" Abide by what it's all about The electricity or live endings Which are sometimes as large as sunsets Or just like human contact [Bridge] High fives are underrated And life's underappreciated in many ways By many different kinds of people Good people check What's the difference Between different kinds of people? All the secrets and house keys, of course High fives are underrated And life's underappreciated in many ways By many different kinds of people Good people check What's the difference Between different kinds of people? All the secrets and house keys, of course [Verse 5] Appreciate what is worth saving Less bank, more world The bus is on it's way Say, where's the love? hey! I accept phone numbers And opinions and the fact that Not everyone wants smiles and eye contact Go on there look back, don't look back Court of hellos and squares Or squares with twists in stacks Not everyone wants smiles and eye contact Go on there look back, don't look back Court of hellos and squares Or squares with twists in stacks [Break] At 29th and smiling child You'll meet your dream bus Full of wives, husbands And best laid plans [Verse 6] You can't tell me That a main drag at 3 o'clock a.m With all it's going traffic lights and silent city hum Doesn't remind you of a seashore That's just life, ants eat right on grass Or sidewalk cracks, or grass in sidewalk cracks Playing kids like passing cars Outside your window Have a certain harmony about them It's the sound of shifting bricks At night going traffic lights That's just life It's the sound your face makes in your head That seashell seashore sound That silent city hum [Outro] A man is died A baby's born It heard a plane flew It flew over broadway