| From the lush green
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| To the sandy beach
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| From the seven seas
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| To the mountain peaks
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| From the lush green
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| To the sandy beach
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| From the seven seas
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| To the mountain peaks
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| (Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, uh, yo)
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| From the forest trees
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| To the city streets
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| Yellow sunshine bouncing off the concrete
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| (To the city streets)
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| London
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| (City streets)
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| Birmingham
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| (City streets)
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| Chi-Town
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| (City streets)
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| New York
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| (City streets)
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| Melbourne
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| (City streets)
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| Tokyo
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| (City Streets)
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| Oslo
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| (City Streets)
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| Berlin
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| Ride the tubes and buses
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| Commuting through the rushing
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| Headphones bumping, bopping to the looped percussion
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| Returning to that tribal nature I’ve been losing touch with
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| The world’s my oyster
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| Every time I touch in
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| I’m trying to reach beyond that
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| Broaden my horizons
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| Surely I’m alive for something more than 9-to-5ing
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| Living for the city, now the city lives within me
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| The pain, the pity, the glory; |
| the story that she brings me
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| From underground tunnel to skyscraper chimney
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| I’m trying to scrap the paper quick, before the bailiffs get me
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| I state it plain and simply, this nanny state can never babysit me
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| Gentrify the ghetto, still, we’re staying gritty
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| So turn the shit up loud
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| When the skies are overcast and all you can see is cloud
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| We do the city proud
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| Where every man’s a king, and every park bench a throne
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| And every corner like the courtyard of ancient Rome
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| Lay your hat down and make it home
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| And may God bless the child that’s got his own, that’s got his own
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| I’m in the zone, I’m in the zone
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| From the lush green
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| To the sandy beach
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| From the seven seas
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| To the mountain peaks
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| (City streets)
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| Johannesburg
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| (City streets)
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| Glasgow
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| (City streets)
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| Amsterdam
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| (City streets)
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| Manchester
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| From the forest trees
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| To the city streets
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| Yellow sunshine bouncing off the concrete
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| (City streets, city streets, city streets, city streets)
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| [Instrumental to outro:
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| (When they crucified my Lord
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| Were you there
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| When they crucified my Lord?)] |