I'm tired of this dirty old city.
Entirely too much work and never enough play.
And I'm tired of these dirty old sidewalks.
Think I'll walk off my steady job today.
Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montanna.
And gimme all I got comin' to me,
And keep your retirement and your so called social security.
Big City turn me loose and set me free.
Been working everyday since I was twenty.
Haven't got a thing to show for anything I've done.
There's folks who never work and they've got plenty.
Think it's time some guys like me had some fun.
Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montanna.
And gimme all I got comin' to me,
And keep your retirement and your so called social security.
Your mommy always said don't take those boys to bed
It might feel good today but in 9 months you'll pay
I know it's your first time I'm gonna make you feel just fine
You say you never did and you're really unprepared
Chorus:
Don't you worry, don't you fret
I've got a method that ain't thought of yet
Put it in and pull it out
Slap it on your back and watch it spout
I don't think you'll mind if I take ya from behind
Get you on your hands and knees, put your mind at ease
Feel the throbbing what a treat as the wax begins to heat
I think it's almost there, gonna pull it out with care
-Chorus-
Backwaxed, backwaxed, you're being backwaxed
Backwaxed, backwaxed, you're being backwaxed
Backwaxed
Ow, I think things are coming through
??????????? looks good on you
Now the shine is on your back
Feel the heat of the wax attack
-Verse 1-
-Chorus-
Backwaxed, backwaxed, you're being backwaxed
BIG CITY
Writer C. Shamley
Big city, you mean more to her than me
I'm a broken-hearted country boy
Now that she is gone
She left me for the city life
And there I don't belong
She was just a simple country girl
And I still love her so
But she chose a different way of life
And I had to let her go
To the big city, with so many things to see
Big city, you took so much from me
With your miles and miles of lights that shine
You lured her from these arms of mine
Big city, you mean more to her than me
Once she was so satisfied
With nothing more than me
But now she's where they live a way
That seems so wrong to me
My hopes and all my memories
Will never fade away
Will she ever come back here to me
In the big city
Where the lights are low
Cold dirty ground
Where the rivers don't flow
Nothing's gonna change so throw it all away
In the big city
Where the kids will come cheap
And monsters prowl and never sleep
Don't cross the road if you haven't got the time of day
Well I lost my girl waiting for the train from Ride
I know she's out there somewhere
Selling all we got but I don't mind
In the big city
You can walk a thin line
Your mother won't know that you do a bit of crime
Your father's on the dole and he really hasn't got the time
In the big city
Where it's hard to see the sky
And the black earth trembles when the trains go by
And the bums on the corner tell you gently
To fuck off and die
Well I lost my girl and I missed my train to Ride
And I'm stuck here selling papers
And spitting on the ground when you walk by
In the big city
You can dance all night
Only if you're clean and the lads are not uptight
Or you may as well forget it and wait until the broad daylight
In the big city
Where the suits don't look you in the eye
Learn how to laugh you'll be planning when to die
And don't expect any favours from the cars passing by
I lost my girl waiting for the train from Ride
Well I don't mind matching colours or parking people's cars
And telling little lies if that's alright
In the big city
Oh, I can tell by the way that she walks
She's a big city girl
And I can tell by the way that she talks
She might even save the world
Well, she got my number
But I don't think she knows my name
Oh, but since I've found this woman
Don't you know my life has changed?
Well, she got me singin' my song
Like I never sung it before, yeah
Big city, big city
Lord, I'd like to try 'em again
Big city, big city
Big city women got me again
All right
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Now, if you go to New Orleans
You got to find her there, too
Ha, now don't you know just what I mean?
I think she's down there lookin' for you
I've been to Chicago, babe
I've been to New York City, too, yes, I have
Well, don't you know the big city women?
They know how to give me the blues
Early in the morning
Oh, when the big city lovin' begins, yeah
Big city, big city
Lord, I'd like to try 'em again
Big city, big city
Big city women got me again
Alright Craig
Big city, big city
Lord, I'd like to try 'em again
Big city, big city
Big city women got me again
I'd like to try some other girl
Oh, got to have 'em one more time
I'd like to try some other girl
Oh, got to have 'em one more time
I'd like to try some other girl
Gotta, gotta, gotta have it
Gotta, gotta, gotta have it
Oh, you got me where you want now, babe
Although I've been away so many lonely nights
You know I'm back today, I'm back to stay in your arms
Although I've been around and lived the life I said I loved
You know without you honey, all I do is worth nothing
And girlie, don't cry for me
Although there might be other people in my life
Honey, on my mind, you will always find there's only you
And though you say you'll journey to some foreign land
I'll remember you, yes, and I'll be true to your memory
And when at last you do come wandering home to me
I might look at you but it will be through the weeks between
And when I hold you it might not be you I have
Well.. I.. happened to..
Find me a buggy
Coming out from under a rock in the grass, yeah
He got his bug luggage
No time to talk he's walkin' fast, yeah
Said he's heading for a log where the lady bugs are plentiful
He showed me some brochures and I must say it was beautiful
I'm belly down and bendin' back the blades
Bug stopped just long enough for him to say
I'm on my way... to bug citay
I'm on my way... to bug citay
If you wanna dance with a buggy
Put all six feet on the ground, yeah
The bug will pick up your luggage
And drive you straight into town, yep
Where you're safe from the spray and the kitty and the chase
If bugs can make it there they could make it any place
Between the sun going going down and the sun coming up
Yeah bug city's rocking, Yeah that feather pluckin' log is lit up
I'm on my way... to bug citay
I'm on my way... to bug citay
And they're all going to bug city for the night
And they're all going to bug city for the night
Every single bug that you see on the sidewalk's
On his way to bug city for the night
And they're all going to bug city for the night
And they're all going to bug city for the night
Yes they're all going to bug city for the night
And they're all going to bug city for the night
Well.. I.. happened to..
Find me a buggy
Coming out from under a rock in the grass, yeah
He got his bug luggage
No time to talk he's walkin' fast, yeah
Said he's heading for a log where the lady bugs are plentiful
He showed me some brochures and I must say it was beautiful
I'm belly down and bendin' back the blades
Bug stopped just long enough for him to say
I'm on my way... to bug citay
I'm on my way... to bug citay
If you wanna dance with a buggy
Put all six feet on the ground, yeah
The bug will pick up your luggage
And drive you straight into town, yep
Where you're safe from the spray and the kitty and the chase
If bugs can make it there they could make it any place
Between the sun going going down and the sun coming up
Yeah bug city's rocking, Yeah that feather pluckin' log is lit up
I'm on my way... to bug citay
I'm on my way... to bug citay
And they're all going to bug city for the night
And they're all going to bug city for the night
Every single bug that you see on the sidewalk's
On his way to bug city for the night
And they're all going to bug city for the night
And they're all going to bug city for the night
Yes they're all going to bug city for the night
And they're all going to bug city for the night
Yes they're all going to bug city for the night
I'm tired of this dirty old city
entirely too much work and never enough play
and I'm tired of these dirty old sidewalks
I think I'll walk off my steady job today
Chorus:
So turn me loose, set me free
somewhere in the middle of Montana
Gimme all I've got coming to me
and keep your retirement
and your, so called, social security
Big City turn me loose and set me free
I've been working every day since I was twenty
I ain't got a thing to show for anything I've done
Some folks never work and they've got plenty
I think it's time girls like me had some fun
(chorus)
Here we are in the big, big city
Plenty of ways to spend your money
Getting ripped off is a way of life
Stick your money on a skin flint knife
No,no,no,no it's too shitty
I don't want to live in the big, big city
Tourist attractions look at that!
Buy me a plastic policeman's hat
But there's a riot uptown they're fighting back
And the boys in blue are wearing black
Flying squad what a farce
If pigs could fly they wouldn't need cars
Got control over us all
New Scotland Yard ,the new Berlin Wall
Give me a break don't tell me
That life is great in the big city
It's all based on money and greed
Everything you'll never need
We pray for a better today, glocks and berettas spray
Everyday, how did I survive yesterday?
I can't call it, cops shot the alcoholic
The fiend saw it, he got the gun, he want a dime for it
The hood life, chicks and thugs, crips and bloods
Dippin' on the judge, pushin' whips and drugs
Burnin' big buds, gettin' love, spinnin' them dubs
For the taste of it, the low life'll split your mug
It's the home of the brave, the zone of the slave
We all want it but gettin' it's a whole 'nother page
The young guns wantin' respect, flossin' the tech
Bitches wanna strip, now it's all for the check
Yo, everyday, lives at stake, pies to bake
Same knife that cuts your throat divides the cake
For the hustlers, thugs, who scheme to survive
And all in between, scream fuck a 9 to 5
In the bright lights, the big city
The thieves stay crawlin' at night with eyes shifty
In the bright lights, the big city
The fiends come sortin' the price with nine fifty
In the bright lights, the big city
They squeeze off, lustin' for shine and die quickly
In the bright lights, the big city
The streets take a whole of your mind, it gets gritty
Daydreams, bought and sold
The high price we livin' might cost your soul
Secret indictments, furrows with roll hoes
Codefendant, I hope he don't tell what he knows
Exposed to a life of crime since I was nine
Gettin' money by design despite the time
Hustlin' to be a man and feed my fam
My wife, my seed, my land completes the plan
Please understand, either legal or scam
I see the thieves in the van, I can't beat the man
Still monster ballin', eatin', speakin' ebonics
Wit foreign cars, custom made clothes and chronic
Bank rolls and prophets, shine solar powered
Fine hoes that's 'bout it, long as you keep they nose powdered
Obey street laws, careful what you say
You can play but you might not make it through the day
In the bright lights, the big city
The thieves stay crawlin' at night with eyes shifty
In the bright lights, the big city
The fiends come sortin' the price with nine fifty
In the bright lights, the big city
They squeeze off, lustin' for shine and die quickly
In the bright lights, the big city
The streets take a whole of your mind, it gets gritty
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from goin' under, I'm used to gettin' over
I'm deep in the middle, indeed the heat sizzle
For the littlest beef, even the seeds keep pistols
Foreigners talk funny, friends they want from me
But all I need is long money and a strong honey
I need it fast, I'm furious like Vin Diesel
I'm lookin' at my plate wit food for ten people
So, do what you gotta do, do what you want to
The blocks hot like a sauna, cops try to pawn you
The fiends trick you, dude behind you wanna get you
On the grind, your best friend'll talk for a figure
Walk wit a nigga, see it, don't talk about it, be it
Don't walk around, then beat it, we all bound to feel it
This ain't the town, so watch your tour
What's goin' down, it's poppin' off
In the bright lights, the big city
The thieves stay crawlin' at night with eyes shifty
In the bright lights, the big city
The fiends come sortin' the price with nine fifty
In the bright lights, the big city
They squeeze off, lustin' for shine and die quickly
In the bright lights, the big city
The streets take a whole of your mind, it gets gritty
Lately shit's been drivin' me crazy
Won't you take me outta this city?
Streets too busy
Men too old and the girls too pretty
I see that you want me
I'm needin' somebody
Don't ask me no questions
There's really no reason
You look like your ready
To run from the city
I'm feelin' the same way
Just wanna get away
Met you on the corner of my favorite shop
I don't really care if I know you or not
All I really need, someone to hold me tonight
Doesn't make a difference if it's wrong or it's right
Maybe in a day of two I'm falling for you
And you'll be gone and I'll be painting pictures of you
But for now all that matters is the thing that we've got
See I don't really care if we make it or not
Lately shit's been driving me crazy
Won't you take me outta this city?
Streets too busy
Men too old and the girls too pretty
Baby, won't you come and save me?
Won't you make my world less chilly?
Don't need pity
Just your arms around my body
Won't you come and take me?
Away from the city
Let's do it today
Just want to get away
Met you on the corner of my favorite shop
I don't really care if I know you or not
All I really need, someone to hold me tonight
Doesn't make a difference if it's wrong or it's right
Maybe in a day of two I'm falling for you
And you'll be gone and I'll be painting pictures of you
But for now all that matters is the thing that we've got
See I don't really care if we make it or not
Lately shit's been driving me crazy
Won't you take me outta this city?
Streets too busy
Men too old and the girls too pretty
Baby, won't you come and save me?
Won't you make my world less chilly?
Don't need pity
Just your arms around my body
Let's just do something else
Met you on the corner of my favorite shop
I don't really care if I know you or not
All I really need, someone to hold me tonight
Doesn't make a difference if it's wrong or it's right
Maybe in a day of two I'm falling for you
And you'll be gone and I'll be painting pictures of you
But for now all that matters is the thing that we've got
See I don't really care if we make it or not
Lately shit's been driving me crazy
Won't you take me outta this city?
Streets too busy
Men too old and the girls too pretty
Baby, won't you come and save me?
Won't you make my world less chilly?
Don't need pity
Just your arms around my body
[Masta Ace]
'New York, Big City of Dreams'
to get by, cats doing plenty of things
it's a honest hustle, but you gotta have some kind of muscle
either it's that or you sign with Russel
'cause nowadays an average cat can flow decent
so in your sparetime you can go to the precinct
let me introduce you to some cats who won't shoot you
everyday they're spinnnin their pen it's so crucial
they got kids to feed, wifes to hug
their jobs are so strange, their lifes above
look, my nigga Al had a store in his trunk
and the place under the dash where he store his pump
he had them white and white 'Air Force Ones' for 40 ($)
and them iddy-biddy-kiddy ones for shorty
he was just trying to survive to the session
now he's locked up for stolen goods and gun posession
my nigga Neek had them first for cheek
he bough a too family home and excursion jeep
but word got around he was doing it big
cops ran up in his crib, now he's doing a bit
now Jose was making money hand over biz
he had legimated jobs with a little bit of a twist
besides me and my man, I've known people
he sold stuff too, out of the back of home deepo
everything from new tools to kitchen sinks
and he was just trying to get rich as stinks
'cause now he lost his job and his morgage due
and he can't afford a lawyer, man law gets through, oooh
we were lying on skeems and skams
just so we could realize our dreams and plans, man
this ain't America is it?
it don't take much for the cops to come pay you a visit
but do what you gotta do, fuck them laws
life is a test you better up them scores
listen, I ain't trying to survive, I'm trying to life
and here is some advise I been dying to give
they don't care if you sell it to inner section
republicans run for officers when ellection
who's in the inner section, see my pen errecting
this for my cats that just been effecting
from ground sillawats, it's down steal the spots
it won't stop untill we're down kill the cops
it's a revolution, you believe in god, a evolution
either way dog, we need a resolution like Aaliyah
a man got sentenced to a year
and when he get out, it's another street career
it's a vicious cycle
for every kid who ball in the park and wish he might do
listen the world don't like you, but
you better keep it moving, you better keep improving
you love my voice, ain't it deep insolvent
I'm saying fuck fame, I'm having a no-name
platinum and gold chain, and saying
Concrete and chaos rise up
Spiderweb across the land
Like a giant rash
Forests lie down below
Foundations of buildings in a bed of ash
Some people here got it real good
Cuz the glass towers bring prosperity
Other people starve in the street
Because concrete knows no sympathy
Big city its a wishing well
Big city its a living hell
This town its fucking insane
How one will starve and another will gain
Like a giant mechanical brain
And the people are cells and the streets are veins
It thinks only of itself
A thousand limbs crawling as it expands and grows
And still the concrete sits there
Sits there stark grey and cold
And I think I wanna be a brick layer
So I can put another brick in the wall
Its sanitary rational happy and sane
I live by the river all my life And I don't know nothing but the lord is christ
(Chorus) Can't go home again I can't go home again East and west that highway roam Lord have mercy on my poor soul Wish my blue eyed baby home My Pretty little blue eyed baby
That rivers deep that rivers wide Devil stands an every side (Chorus)
Sun sinking deep, fires burning down
Hard to see the moon, when the smoke is all around
I live in a big city
And they tell me we are free
I hear babies cryin'
There'll be killing in these streets
How many heartaches, how many years of pain
Just how many funerals, before the streets be safe again
I live in a big city
And they tell me we are free
I hear babies cryin'
There'll be killing in these streets
Evening sun going down, police using his billy stick
When the blood start to flowin', and it'll be flowin'
till the mornin' come again
I live in a big city
And they tell me that we are free
Now I hear these babies cryin'
Do you know what that's doin' to me?
To late to go back home
Stranded in the streets
Sweating in the heat
Don't care to be a star
Poundin on the door
Sleepin on the floor
Big city, ain;t to pretty
Big city, nice and loud
Big city, don't want no pitty
Big city, its one big crowd
No chance to make the big time
I've been workin hard
Got to take it far
No love along the way
I've been movin fast
Got to make it last
Big city, ain;t to pretty
Big city, nice and loud
Big city, don't want no pitty
Big city, its one big crowd
They say no, no, no
Everywhere I go
But I'm gonna win
Agains the odds
And my flaws
Here in the city of sin, in the city of sin
I've got to get ahead
Too many sceams,
Too many dreams
I got to be somebody
Got to bleed for the things I need
Big city, ain;t to pretty
Big city, nice and loud
Big city, don't want no pitty
Big city, its one big crowd
Big city, ain;t to pretty
Big city, nice and loud
Big city, don't want no pitty
I'm walking your streets again big city searching every face that I see
Looking for my darling big city the one that you took away from me
You lured him with your night life big city
To take him from me you know it was wrong
I'm searching night and day for him big city
Oh without his love I just can't go on
[ trumpet - ac.guitar ]
You took my love away from me big city stole him out of my two lovin' arms
You know I'm gonna hate you big city if you brought my baby any harm
So I'm walking your streets again big city...
Think twice about big tall cities
That's right
Think twice about big tall cities
Think twice
right
He closes his eyes to the world
When he wakes up at night
And she, she reaches tenderly
Kisses him and holds him tight
He, he lies awake by her side
And waits for the cold sweat to dry
She, she comforts he and tells him
Scary things in your sleep can't bite
Tomorrow they'll pack up their buckeye ties
Head for the big city
Past the driving rains
And desert plains touching Mexico
They'll see sidewalk stars
Luxury cars and even Disneyland
Reach the land of plenty
With the hopes that maybe they can
Make a new start on the world
But my advice?
You're gonna
Think twice about big cities
Think twice that's right
Think twice about big tall cities
Right
Think twice about big cities
Think twice that's right
You're gonna
Think twice about big cities
Think twice that's right
I'm sorry old man
Its nothing personal you understand
But I've just gotta run
This lead pipe on someone
For tommorrow they ride upon
A sour wind that's gonna push them west
With Mojave dust, paper cups
And Grayhound immigrants
There's the sidewalk saviors
And drunken sailors
And she-men in leather like cops
You got the calling
Stop stalling
The big city's waiting for you
But my advice?
You're gonna
Think twice about big cities
Think twice about big cities
Think twice about big tall cities
a parade of tiny lights moving in a row
and the sound of voices far off in the night
from the rooftop I can look down and see them all below
headin for the brightest spot in sight
big city
everybody I know can be found there
big city
go and get my women and go down there
people crowdin, laughin, shoutin, having a good time
all the girls are dressed in the latest styles
there's dancin all night long
and there's parties you can find
everything you need to liven up your mind
big city
everybody I know is down here
big city
got my woman and I'm glad I'm down here
people cowdin, laughin, shoutin, having a good time
gettin what they need to liven up their minds
big city
get your woman and come on down here
big city
everything you need is down here
Used to be a farm town boy
Living dreams on my tv screen,
Never thought of something more
Than passing day to day
Then one day she arrived, giving me a fever
Now I don't know where to run
Everything just feels like
Chorus.:
I'm living in a big city now,
I'm living in a big city now
It gives me feeling my soul needs healing
My dreams are scattered my heart is battered again
I'm living in a big city now
To the hell that thing I'm going out, I'm moving to the city,
I'm tired of my old town, nothings ever changing
I'm gonna be a star on every tv screen
Maybe then she'll realize that things are really big
But lifes just not that simple, I've learned it in hard way
You gotta work your knees of to ever see that shining light thing
But everyday's a miracle, and holding on to little things
Might get you through, through your darkest times, cause
Chorus.:
I'm living in a big city now,
I'm living in a big city now
It gives me feeling my soul needs healing
My dreams are scattered my heart is battered again
I'm living in a big city now
Bridge:
Holding on to little things
It's all we gotta do
