City Cries At Night Lyrics - Jim Ed Brown

Have you ever stopped and listened at the way that a city sheds its tears 

At the streams of the junky who needs nothing more than just a needle by 

I can smell a grass a burnin' some fool next door wants to charge his mind 

These apartment walls are thin and the sound just walks right in 

Tells me how the city cries at night 

Some drunk he stumbles from the curb and mumbles and he tries to hail a cab 

Some woman runs out from a bar a shoutin' that her lover's in a fight 

That old meet wagon's rollin' I guess somebody's either heard her died 

The corner preacher just begins to tell us all about our sins 

That's another way the city cries at night 

I hear a sirene whinin' and that sound don't help to lift a lonely soul 

I smell the wrapper burnin' two cats are draggin' out from light to light 

Some wino walks along the curb and drinks his empty bottle in the street 

These apartment walls are thin and the sound just walks right in 

Tells me how the city cries at night 

The jet eats up the runway as it moans and groans and reaches for the blue 

My baby rides her wings she's got a lovin' with some swinging disco guy 

She left her screamin' heart behind when her lips made the sound of goodbye 

The walls of my heart are thin and the hurt it just walks right in 

Tells me how the city cries at night 

The walls of my heart are thin and the hurt it just walks right in 

Tells me how the city cries at night