Chalk one up for the street
Mark one down for the city
One more grown baby boy is sleepin' on the sidewalk tonight

Wide round eyes, wide round lights
Can be full but without substance
In an instant you can hear an angel

Spread its wings and fly away

You're in the city

Where you lay down your dreams
You can feel it, through the sidewalk
A heartbeat beneath your feet

Where they'll let you smell the water
Then tell you ?you can't drink,
You're in the city now?


There's a cry, there's a roar
There's a howl that never ends

There's a silence that runs wide as it runs deep
And unspoken, broken people
Lying in the doorways

The light within them sputters and flickers
Like it almost had never been


You're in the city
Where you lay down your dreams
You can feel it, through the sidewalk

A heartbeat beneath your feet
Where they'll let you smell the water
Then tell you ?you can't drink,

You're in the city now?

There's a light and it is you

There's a light and it is me
There's a hope that's round and hollow
As a paper moon on a string

We can be perfect, we can be stronger
Saints are sinners who just tried longer
I am certainly no saint

But I surely heard the call

You're in the city

Where you lay down your dreams
You can feel it, through the sidewalk
A heartbeat beneath your feet

Where they'll let you smell the water
Then tell you ?you can't drink,
You're in the city now