The whole city is sleeping
Not me, I'm wide awake
Lookin' down at the lights

Man, there's people down there livin' a life
Makes mine look like paradise


I see you standing in the porch light
Sad and waving goodbye
There behind the screen door

On a summer night
And me behind the wheel of that old black Ford
The one we drove into the ground

Pedal to the floor, tryin' to give it more
Tryin' to break away from that town
Now here I am and

The whole city is sleeping
Not me, I'm wide awake
Lookin' down at the lights

Man, there's people down there livin' a life
Makes mine look like paradise
Just like paradise, just like paradise...


We were driving through a rainy night
Your face lit up in the passing headlights

And I could see that you were far away
Dreaming of another time and place
That's when it hit me

It's the things you love the most
You end up pushing away
And it ain't the times you lose

It's the dreams coming true
That make you most afraid


The whole city is sleeping
Not me, I'm wide awake
Lookin' down at the lights

Man, there's people down there livin' a life
Makes mine look like paradise


The whole world seems so small
From up here high above the street
Lookin' down at the light

And my troubles fade into the night
Like the lights into eternity