Never the Bright Lights

I see the people walking down the streets at night

They all look like they long for a fight

It's like a dream where everybody is for sale

In a country where they're angry and the sky is pale

We always want something more, hell, we want it all

'Til you can go back to your life, if that's what it's called

It's such a terrible fate to be young and ugly

To be faced by so much uncertainty

You better keep your sanity

You better keep your sanity

Bright lights go up, big city come down

Bright lights go up, big city come down

Bright lights go up, big city come down

Bright lights go up, big city come down

All your convictions give you notions of self-destruction

So you think of something that will keep us together

He may be black, he may be white, but they don't identify

In a city where there's too much violence already

Look at the sky, it's dirty and it's grey and filthy

And today looks just like yesterday

You ask yourself how long can a bad thing last?

When we are starting to unease with so much strife

This is when they change your life

This is when they change your life

Bright lights go up, big city come down

Bright lights go up, big city come down

Bright lights go up, big city come down

Bright lights go up, big city come down

I see the people walking down the streets at night

They all look like they long for a fight

Just like the old man said

"What you gonna do with your life?"

Never the bright lights

Never the bright lights