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Cincinnati (/sɪnsᵻˈnæti/ sin-si-NAT-ee) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio that serves as county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the north side of the confluence of the Licking with the Ohio River. The latter forms the border between the states of Ohio and Kentucky. Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and the 65th-largest city in the United States with a population of 296,945 people at the 2010 census. The larger Cincinnati metropolitan area had a population of 2,214,954 in 2010, making it the 28th-largest Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the United States and the largest centered in Ohio. The city is also part of the larger Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which had a population of 2,172,191 in the 2010 census.
In the early 19th century, Cincinnati was an American boomtown in the heart of the country; it rivaled the larger coastal cities in size and wealth. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was listed among the top 10 U.S. cities by population, surpassed only by New Orleans and the older, established settlements of the Eastern Seaboard; at one point holding the position of sixth-largest city for a period spanning consecutive census reports from 1840 until 1860. It was by far the largest city in the west. Because it is the first major American city founded after the American Revolution as well as the first major inland city in the country, Cincinnati is sometimes thought of as the first purely "American" city.
I've been to your town
Ain't nobody around
I've been to your city
Ain't no city like Cincinnati
The first time I've been there
In the rollin heat
I saw black love spent
And angel wings
I saw white dust choke
And kill and end the violence
And I know I'm running the American Dream
Red, White, and Blue blood
Run at the seams
Bitter sweet liberty
Don't mean shit to me
Hey I've been to your town
Ain't nobody around
Hey baby I've been to your city
Ain't no city like Cincinnati
Hey I run along to Mexico
Some water is cold up the coast
You know I bleed the sun
The ressurection
I run along to Ohio
Drive past the grave of an old romance
Never felt more alive than Suicide Cincinnati
Cincinnati
And I've been to your town
Ain't nobody around
Hey baby I've been
To your city
Ain't no city like Cincinnati
Here we are...