No Big City - Mike Zito

I remember being young

When I went downtown

Buildings so tall I can’t see

Clouds in the sky

Shadows would black out the streets

People walk for miles just to get back to work

All the cars and buses stealing the scene

Oh the one homeless man

Who’s sleeping on the corner with a newspaper pillow

Obscene

It’s no big city

Anymore

It’s no big city

Not for me

Now it’s time to grow up

And stay out all night

Downtown clubs got the beat

Yeah the girls in the bars, they drink too much

And the drugs really turn on the heat

The lights at night

Shine on the river

While I’m heading east to wake up my mind

Now the suns coming up over east saint Louis

And I’m wide awake and walking it blind

It’s not big city

Anymore

It’s no big city

Oh not to me

34 years later from the day I was born

In the same city

Almost all of my life

I’ve been right from wrong

I’ve been black and white

Sometimes at the blade of a knife

Now it all makes sense

Why we need to stay together

And we’re gonna fight the good fight

Cause the times gonna come

To open our hearts

Minds that will become one tonight

No big city

Anymore

It’s no big city

Oh not to me

I said no big city

Well not anymore

No big city

Oh not to me

Well anymore

Not anymore

Oh oh

Oh oh

Oh oh

Oh oh

Oh oh

Oh oh