Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Grim-faced and and forbidding
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Their faces closed tight
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An angular mass of New Yorkers
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Pacing in rhythm
Race the oncoming night
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They chase through the streets
of Manhattan
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Head-first humanity
humanity
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Pause at a light
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Then flow through the streets of the city
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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They seem oblivious
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To a soft spring rain
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Like an English rain
So light, yet endless
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From a leaden sky, yeah
Interlude 2
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Verse 3
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The buildings are lost
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In their limitless rise
My feet catch the pulse
Interlude 3
And the purposeful stride
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Verse 4
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I feel the sense of possibilities
I feel the wrench of hard realities
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The fo cus is sharp in the city
Interlude 4
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Verse 5
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Wide-angle watcher
watcher
On life's ancient tales
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Steeped in the history of London
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Green and Grey washes
In a wispy white veil
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Mist in the streets of
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Westminster
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Wistful and weathered
The pride still prevails
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Alive in the streets of the city
Interlude 5
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Verse 6
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Are they oblivious
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To this quality?
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A quality
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Of light unique to every city's
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streets
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Verse 7
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Pavements may teem
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With intense energy
But the city is calm
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In this violent sea
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Verse 8
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I feel the sense of possibilities
I feel the wrench of hard
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realities
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The focus is sharp in the city
Outro 1
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