We Love the City

This is London, not Antarctica

So why don't the tubes run all night?

You are my girlfriend, not Molly Ringwald

So why won't you stay here tonight?

This is sixth form poetry, not Keats or Yeats

And now we find the path that we both hate

We love the city because it lets us down

We love the city, not the suburbs that surround

We love all the dirty things

that lead us to think

that maybe true love could be found

We love the city because it's how we live

We love the city 'cause it never loves us back

We love it all because sometimes

even though it's hard to find

It contains all the virtues we lack

I am intrigued, not merely curious

as to why it takes so long to change your mind

I am competent, not merely adequate

It's impossible for me to be unkind

This is embarrassing, not merely awkward

and I have ignored much greater feelings

We love the city because it lets us down

We love the city, not the suburbs that surround

We love all the dirty things that lead us to think

that maybe true love could be found

We love the city because it's how we live

We love the city 'cause it never loves us back

We love it all because sometimes

even though it's hard to find

It contains all the values we lack

We can hold those aspirations down

with our love and half-hearted frowns

But fear alone will never bring us down

That can only happen in the small towns

And if you don't love me now

Oh, if you don't love me now

Oh, if you don't love me

then you can't have me

then you can't have me now

And if you don't love me now

Oh, if you don't love me now

Oh, if you don't love me

then you can't have me

then you can't have me now