She's like a city, like a city I come to.
She's like a city, like a city I drive through.

There is a down town
Where advertisements shout enticements and threats.

There are a suburbs
Where nothing much grows, and the paint's still wet.

There are places that I run to, 'cause they're safe,
And there are places I won't go.

She's like a city, like a city I come from.
She's like a city, like a city where I belong.

Sometimes I'll walk past a doorway
Where there's a freak show going on.
Or I'll stand on a bridge above a highway,
And below me a stream of engines and they're singing:

We can't take this place,
Be we take this place,
And we love this place,
But we hate it here, 
Let's go away.

But we don't go away,
We think we'll stay,
Will she let us stay?
Will she take us in?

Like a city, like a city, like a city.
She's like a city, like a city, like a city.
She's like a city, like a city, like a city.
She's like a city, like a city, like a city.
She's like a city.