A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.
For example, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts an article of incorporation approved by the local state legislature distinguishes a city government from a town. In the United Kingdom and parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, a city is traditionally a settlement with a royal charter. Historically, in Europe, a city was understood to be an urban settlement with a cathedral.
Cities generally have complex systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing, and transportation. The concentration of development greatly facilitates interaction between people and businesses, benefiting both parties in the process. A big city or metropolis usually has associated suburbs and exurbs. Such cities are usually associated with metropolitan areas and urban areas, creating numerous business commuters traveling to urban centers for employment. Once a city expands far enough to reach another city, this region can be deemed a conurbation or megalopolis.
Oh oh oh ... Blurring facing evasive evolving
747 lands I go out strolling
Pacing lacing up the shoes
That depict a kind of blues
Get a paper read the news
Oh so many cities
Are going around in my head
Take me back to where I might belong
Traipsing trading with strangers and romance
Learnt about the nights where you live like your last
chance
Oh oh oh ... I'm going to rocket with bus across the
sky
Gonna catch a train through the sea
Then steal some fire
Hold on baby while the stage lights eve
When the beat ignites us Prometheus is free
Oh so many cities
Are going around in my head
Take us back to where we might belong
Oh so many people
Rolled up on these shoulders
Something give me grace oh darling please
Blurring facing evasive evolving
747 lands I go out strolling
Pacing lacing up the shoes
That depict a kind of blues
Get a paper read the news
She was a fountain in the desert and a tropical sea
Our caravan stopped temporarily
Go my dear, get out of here, you can't carry the weight
any longer to me.
To me, the one, the one I admit, the one you pained and
the one you'll never forget. Oh...
Oh no we are locked in the compound, Na na na, Na na na
Get out the City's on Lockdown, Na na na, Na na na
I know we'll get out somehow, Na na na, Na na na
Get out the City's on lockdown.
This wont stop, I fear, you burn in my ear
My eyes my mind and I'm crushed by the weight of theese
sleepless nights
So I rely on thoughts wonder why theese feelings you gave
me insist on staying alive.
Oh no we are locked in the compound, Na na na, Na na na
Get out the City's on Lockdown, Na na na, Na na na
I know we'll get out somehow, Na na na, Na na na
Get out the City's on lockdown.
For everything I wanted you came again and again and
again.
If I want I could move these walls past my door to a better place
I feel like there's a wind that could catch all my fingers, fly away
Past towers of iron and cement touching sky over rivers continents wide
Onto rolling walls with billions inside, augment my view of life, white cliffs isle's east side
Blue fields of five waving patiently while I slide into new scapes of change
Because tomorrow I'll be gone
And all that now surrounds me will keep moving on
When I look back what will I see
Will I have learned a lesson, something I believe
Give me a journey
Show me all the colors of life
Give me the distance
Show me a way to navigate this world
Give me a journey
Show me the road that I should take
There is no reason
To be stuck in just one place
Give me the journey
Paint with the watercolors of life
Give me the distance
To walk the image I create
Give me the journey
Show me the road that I should take
There is no reason
To be stuck in just one place
Keys unlock the plain to golden gates that lock again a violent bay
Where will I land and what will fill my eyes - who will I be each time that I arrive
Blades of grass cutting lines in the dirt and burnt goodbyes I've seen that star it guides my night
By sea or land, shifting air, how I move I don't care
Kiss me soft let me go, breathe in me the place you know - I want to know it too (spoken)
Out of the window there's a scene I seem to have seen each morning
White circles, red squares, I bet you don't see this everywhere
Sure I learn and like and am the things that fill this street
But could you be content knowing each day these moments just repeat
So a thought, a pass, a plane, a ticket marked with ink by name
A taxi pull, a plastic tray folded upright till we leave the runway
Way above the clouds
Freedom's pure when you don't hold out
Watch the weight of all you've known
Pass right under where you've flown
And all the things that seemed to matter
Grow much smaller worn and weathered
Final approach, we're going down
Prepare to land on foreign ground
Way above the clouds
Freedom's pure when you don't hold out
Watch the weight of all you've known
Crash and burn somewhere below
Crash and burn without a sound
Off the wing it looks the same till clouds give way
A new domain beckons me to play
A new song, new life, new ways to fly
Grab on, hold tight, It's gonna be a wild ride
I wanna fly far away
Wanna see a different place
Where to go, I don't know
There is so much left to see - so
I don't know where to go from here
I don't know where to roam
What will I see tomorrow
Where will I sleep tonight
Who will I meet tomorrow
And who will I kiss goodbye
I don't know where to go from here
Still don't know who I am
In spite of all my travels
In spite of all I've seen
My mind replays the memories
And you can't take that from me
But who knows where to go from here
And who cares where I go, do I have to know
Where this road's leading, no place to sleep tonight
The sun just keeps repeating its pattern in the sky
Give me the journey
Paint with all the colors of life
I'll walk the distance
To live on the canvas that I stain
With every memory
Coursing through my veins
There's just a brush
And I am the world it paints
Tell me where to go from here
Tell me I can stay so I see you tomorrow
I'll sleep with you tonight
If I have to go tomorrow
Then I kiss your lips goodbye
I don't want to go from here
And will you understand when you wake up
And I'm not there in the middle of the night
These eyes have yet to see what's under all these skies
Give me the journey
Pour out the colors of my life
I see the distance
In the mirror passing by
Give me my journey
In every shade and stride
There is no reason
Why our worlds should collide
All I've seen and all I've come to know has carved me
With patterns you can trace to realize our differences
Are not for the better or the worse they simply just are
Taught in miles, learned by path, leave it on my epitaph
Embrace each uncomfortable moment then relax
The news alive and educates he who doesn't wait
But packs willing to return to the same space
For the first time
I am living
In colors I'm picking
But you keep on stalling
What cha gonna be if your never see
For the first time
You're given
A fresh pallet
You're mixing
But you can't keep on slipping
Back into the place that cha cant leave
I wanna stay in a place
And I must appreciate
Where I've been, what I've seen
Even though they're different things - and
Now that we've found common ground
I have a way to understand
What you are, how you work
What defines a peoples worth - now
I close my eyes, fall asleep
Knowing I fulfilled my dream
Now it's your time to fly
See the world with open eyes
Think of London, small city
Dark, dark in the daytime
People sleep, sleep in the daytime
If they want to, if they want to
I'm checkin' 'em out
I'm checkin' 'em out
I've got it figured out
I've got it figured out
There's some good points, some bad points
But it all works out, I'm just a little freaked out
Find your city
Find yourself a city to live in
I will find a city
Find yourself a city to live in
A lot of bridges in Birmingham
A lot of ghosts and a lot of houses
Look over there dry ice factory
Good place to get some thinking done
I'm checkin' 'em out
I'm checkin' 'em out
I've got it figured out
I'm the one who got it figured out
There's some good points, some bad points
Find your city
Find yourself a city to live in
I will find a city
Find yourself a city to live in
Did I forget to mention
Forget to mention Memphis
Home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks
Do I smell, I smell home cooking
It's only the river, it's only the river
I'm checkin' 'em out
I'm checkin' 'em out
I've got it figured out
I've got it figured out
There's some good points, some bad points
Are those things real? Denied
Find your city
Find yourself a city to live in
I will find a city
Find yourself a city to live in
I will find a city
Find yourself a city to live in
I will find a city
Think of London, small city
Dark, dark in the daytime
People sleep, sleep in the daytime
If they want to, if they want to
I'm checking them out, I'm checking them out
I got it figured out, I got it figured out
Good points some bad points
But it all works out, I'm a little freaked out
Find a city, find myself a city to live in
I will find a city, find myself a city to live in
Lot of rich people in Birmingham
Lot of ghosts in a lot of houses
Look over there! Dry ice factory
Good place to get some thinking done
I'm checking them out, I'm checking them out
I got it figured out, I got it figured out
Good points some bad points
But it all works out, I'm a little freaked out
Find a city, find myself a city to live in
I will find a city, find myself a city to live in
I'm checking them out, I'm checking them out
I got it figured out, I got it figured out
Good points some bad points
But it all works out, sometimes I'm a little freaked out
Find a city, find myself a city to live in
I will find a city, find myself a city to live in
I forget to mention, forget to mention Memphis
Home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks
Do I smell? I smell home cooking
It's only the river, it's only the river
I'm checking them out, I'm checking them out
I got it figured out, I got it figured out
Good points some bad points
But it all works out, I'm a little freaked out
Find a city, find myself a city to live in
I will find a city, find myself a city to live in
Find a city, find myself a city to live in
I will find a city, find myself a city to live in
Neon, the city's sun
Taxis like beetles run, and I see
Pavements with yellow lines
Grey walls and big bold signs with darkness
Up above, all around
In the sky, on the ground
This is what, I have found
Cities, cities
Here the flowers don't grow
Here the river's just a sewer
People who move below
Buildings with smells and noise and darkness
Up above, all around
In the sky, on the ground This is what, I have found
Cities, cities
Not for me
No, no I don't believe you
It's not the place to be
No, no I won't believe you
Here the flowers don't grow
Here the river's just a sewer People who move below
Buildings with smells and noise and darkness
Up above, all around
In the sky, on the ground
This is what I have found
Is this where the Interstate ends
In coastal towns like this?
Waiting for my world to cave under
We seem to invent ourselves
In places left unknown
If hope could only find me out
Is this the end of everything we know?
This is the end of everything I am
Is anybody out there?
Hello alone!
Broken hearts like promises
I left my last unknowns
Is anybody out there?
Hello alone!
'Cause the coldest winters thrive
The question is, I'm a Holy Ghost
In the coastal towns of Him
Although I know a thousand names
I see my only friend
I've got the ground
All I need is ten cents for the pooling
I feel helpless, sleeping at this, waiting for your return
Are you ever coming home?
Is anybody out there?
Hello alone!
Broken hearts like promises
I left my last unknowns
Is anybody out there?
Hello alone!
'Cause the coldest winters thrive
On broken hopes, broken homes
Does anybody? Do they ever listen?
Does anybody care at all?
Do they care at all? Do they care at all? Do they care at all?
Do you care at all? Do you care at all?
Is this the end of everything we know?
This is the end of everything I am
Is anybody out there?
Hello alone!
Broken hearts, like promises
I left my last unknowns
Is anybody out there?
Hello alone!
'Cause the coldest winters thrive
On broken hopes
Is anybody out there?
Hello alone!
Broken hearts, like promises
I left my last unknowns
Is anybody out there?
Hello alone!
Nonetheless, you're right here
And then we take this home