City Of Light Lyrics - Listen Now - Phil Manzanera

MacCormack-Manzanera 

Well, they say that home is where the heart is 

But you left, way back, and started roaming 

For these streets that were so bright with promise 

Mother's love is what you turned away from 

Now you're trapped 

Down in the City of Light 

You'll go crazy 

City of Light 

City of Light 

Blinds are drawn cross windows facing nowhere 

In the day the darkness is complete 

Close your eyes and try to cry away your nightmares 

You just know the downtown city street 

Where darkness reigns 

Down in the City of Light 

You'll go crazy 

Try as you might there's no end to your days in the 

City of Light 

City of Light 

You know these streets so well 

Each drugstore, night club and bar 

Don't try to run from here 

You're not allowed to get far 

Hookers prowl, the look, the pout, the open invitation 

to liaisons swift with cold 

In rainswept streets, the pimps are calculating 

Acts of haste, the clients, lives they've bought and sold 

Sell yours too 

Down in the City of Light 

Things go hazy 

Try as you might you'll go blind in the blaze of the 

City of Light 

City of Light 

There's been sudden death, a knife, down on the eastside 

You can stand so much, then instinct takes its head 

And though people say that home is where the heart is 

They don't know that this damned city's heart is dead 

There's no escape 

Down in the City of Light 

You'll go crazy 

Try as you might you can never be saved from the 

City of Light 

City of Light 

You know these streets too well 

Each drugstore, night club and dive 

There's no route out of here 

You only know one way to survive