| Big city life
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| Me try fi get by
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| Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try
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| Big city life
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| Here my heart have no base
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| And right now Babylon de pon me case
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| Big city life
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| Me try fi get by
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| Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try
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| Big city life
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| My heart have no base
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| And right now Babylon de pon me case
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| People in a show
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| All lined in a row
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| We just push on by
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| It's funny
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| How hard we try
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| Take a moment to relax
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| Before you do anything rash
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| Don't you want to know me?
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| Be a friend of mine
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| I'll share some wisdom with you
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| Don't you ever get lonely
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| From time to time
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| Don't let the system get you down
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| Big city life
 | 
| Me try fi get by
 | 
| Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try
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| Big city life
 | 
| Here my heart have no base
 | 
| And right now Babylon de pon me case
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| Big city life
 | 
| Me try fi get by
 | 
| Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try
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| Big city life
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| My heart have no base,
 | 
| And right now Babylon de pon me case
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| Soon our work is done
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| All of us one by one
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| Still we live our lives
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| As if all this stuff survives
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| Don't you want to know me?
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| Be a friend of mine
 | 
| I'll share some wisdom with you
 | 
| Don't you ever get lonely
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| From time to time
 | 
| Don't let the system get you down
 | 
| The linguist across the seas and the oceans
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| A permanent itinerant is what I've chosen
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| I find myself in big city prison,
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| Arisen from the vision of man kind
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| Designed, to keep me discreetly neatly in the corner
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| You'll find me with the flora and the fauna and the hardship
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| Back a yard is where my heart is still
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| I find it hard to depart this big city life
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| Big city life
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| Me try fi get by
 | 
| Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try
 | 
| Big city life
 | 
| Here my heart have no base
 | 
| And right now Babylon de pon me case
 | 
| Big city life
 | 
| Me try fi get by
 | 
| Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try
 | 
| Big city life
 | 
| My heart have no base
 | 
| And right now Babylon de pon me case
 | 
| Big city life
 | 
| Me try fi get by
 | 
| Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try
 | 
| Big city life
 | 
| Here my heart have no base
 | 
| And right now Babylon de pon me case
 | 
| Big city life
 | 
| Me try fi get by
 | 
| Pressure nah ease up no matter how hard me try
 | 
| Big city life
 | 
| My heart have no base
 | 
| And right now Babylon de pon me case |