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Detroit ( /diˈtrɔɪt/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan, and the seat of Wayne County. It is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people, and serves as a major port on the Detroit River connecting the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. It was founded on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer, adventurer, and nobleman Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.
In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and ranked as the 18th most populous city in the United States. The name Detroit sometimes refers to the Metro Detroit area with a population of 4,296,250 for the six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area, the United States' eleventh-largest, and a population of 5,218,852 for the nine-county Combined Statistical Area as of the 2010 Census. The Detroit–Windsor area, a critical commercial link straddling the Canada–U.S. border, has a total population of about 5,700,000.
Known as the world's traditional automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for the American automobile industry and an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, the Motor City and Motown. Other nicknames arose in the 20th century, including City of Champions beginning in the 1930s for its successes in individual and team sport,The D, D-Town, Hockeytown (a trademark owned by the city's NHL club, the Red Wings), Rock City (after the Kiss song "Detroit Rock City"), and The 313 (its telephone area code) Detroit became known as the "great arsenal of democracy" for its support of the U.S. role among the Allied powers during World War II.
hey there little love
yeah you took me for a ride
all the way across the country
we were waiting for our love to be realized
but you hardly ever even looked at me
yeah but you gave me no reason to be afraid
but when you finally put your hands on me
oh yeah you know I thought for sure
I thought for sure i’d been saved
so I let you in
oh I let you in
yeah then you took advantage of me
and then I let you down
oh I let you down by telling you
I thought I might be falling into something
oh yeah but you
don’t want and you don’t need
and you don’t wait and you don’t love
but you don’t know yeah you don’t know how I feel
so don’t call me and don’t write
and don’t you dare tell me that you miss me tonight
cause I need someone who’s going to be home when I get
there
little love
now you tell me that what I do for a living
yeah well it is actually a turn off for you
cause I am just smiled at and touched
yeah and my fingers
my fingers are far too rough
and then I tell you
"you know honey, love doesn’t know distance"
and then you turn around and look at me and say
"yeah but my arms do"
oh yeah but you
don’t want and you don’t need
and you don’t wait and you don’t love
but you don’t know yeah you don’t know how I feel
so don’t call me and don’t write
and don’t you dare tell me that you miss me tonight
cause I need someone who’s going be home when I get
there
little love oh my little love
but my stomach hurts
when I hear your name
and so I just keep replaying the film
of the time when you helped me off the stage
and you know that if you think that this is game
well I am not joking
cause my heart she is tiered
she is tiered of being broken
so hey there
little love
yeah you took me
yeah you took me for a ride
little love