| I′m walking down the block
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| I'm in the city-scape
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| Chasing down a break
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| Out here to meet my fate
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| Every day is new
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| Every day is change
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| Have to ride the tidal wave
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| As all things rearrange
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| Stores they come and go
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| Stories write themselves
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| Neighbors lived in Heaven
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| Now they′re in a living Hell
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| This city has a life
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| A life that's all it's own
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| That neighborhood was live
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| ′Till it died, dead and gone
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| This is the city life
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| This is the place I roam
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| This is the place where I reside
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| Now I just call my home
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| This is the city life
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| This is the place I roam
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| This is the place where I reside
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| Now I just call my home
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| This is the city life
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| This is the place I roam
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| This is the place where I reside
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| Now I just call my home
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| I′m still paying rent
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| For this apartment house
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| In the past five years
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| The neighbors priced me out
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| Landlord raised my rent
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| He's grabbing every cent
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| I′m out here grabbing straws
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| Looking for a place to rest
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| Now the rent is rising
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| Every place I look
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| And every landlord that
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| I meet Is looking like a crook
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| They just want my money
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| Don't care if I can eat
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| They don′t care if
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| I sleep out here
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| In the naked street
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| This is the city life
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| This is the place I roam
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| This is the place where I reside
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| Now I just call my home
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| This is the city life
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| This is the place I roam
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| This is the place where I reside
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| Now I just call my home
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| Some dudes in neighborhoods
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| They're out here packing heat
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| They′re shooting little kids
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| By accident out in the street
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| They're shooting grown adults
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| They'll say "It′s not my fault"
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| Cops push em in the car
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| Lock em in the vault
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| Then march off to court
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| Get charges for their sins
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| The lives they took you know
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| They′re never coming back again
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| Now some will feel remorse
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| Others just shrug it off
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| But either way the game they played
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| It was a total loss
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| This is the city life
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| This is the place I roam
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| This is the place where I reside
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| Now I just call my home
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| This is the city life
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| This is the place I roam
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| This is the place where I reside
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| Now I just call my home |