Janis Ian - Streetlife Serenaders lyrics

Yes, I'm out tonight look into my eyes
Listen to my heartbeat I
Could not stay inside the sound of your city
Lights, burning bright, heart's delight
Rhythm of the summer heat and the
Running feet on the city street

And the sun like wheat
Fields, waving cartwheels, crazy in the sky
Gauguin in syncopation to the
Rhythm and the sigh
The echo of your footsteps on
The river makes me high
Don't tell nobody I called it
'cause I think it'll make me cry

Crazy Louie looks for love
In every lost saloon
His tension fit's him like a glove
He reeks of death and doom
Between the resurrection and the light
I've seen it too
Don't tell nobody I called it I
Think I'm in love with you

In the local bodega
The ladies are lovely now
And the gold tooth flashing
Like lightning now must be signaling somehow
To the loser in the cellar over there
Another fella take care!
Cinderella's in love with her ashes
And the love's not fair!

The animals are out tonight I
Hear it in the roar
Somebody oughta start a fight before
They start a war
The streets are like a jungle now
With a lock on every door
I'm going back to the city
Where a whore's a whore

When I get back home
Everything'll be right again
When I'm on my own, I can't fight no more
My friend i got the sound of the
Jungle ringing in my ears
I can't hear the beginning from the end
And I'm frightened of bending in the wind
And I want to get back to the city again

Your breath is like a hurricane my
Heart beats like the sea
Your eyes a broken window pane
In the dust of Galilee
My love ran racing through the night
Like a virgin running free
I can't feel the light do away with me

And I want to go back to the city again
Back to the city again
Back to the city again