Never The Bright Lights

I see the people walking down the streets at night
They all look like they long for a fight
It's like a dream where everybody is for sale
In a country where they're angry and the sky is pale

We always want something more, hell, we want it all
'Til you can go back to your life, if that's what it's called
It's such a terrible fate to be young and ugly
To be faced by so much uncertainty

You better keep your sanity
You better keep your sanity

Bright lights go up, big city come down
Bright lights go up, big city come down
Bright lights go up, big city come down
Bright lights go up, big city come down

All your convictions give you notions of self-destruction
So you think of something that will keep us together
He may be black, he may be white, but they don't identify
In a city where there's too much violence already

Look at the sky, it's dirty and it's grey and filthy
And today looks just like yesterday
You ask yourself how long can a bad thing last?
When we are starting to unease with so much strife

This is when they change your life
This is when they change your life

Bright lights go up, big city come down
Bright lights go up, big city come down
Bright lights go up, big city come down
Bright lights go up, big city come down

I see the people walking down the streets at night
They all look like they long for a fight
Just like the old man said
"What you gonna do with your life?"

Never the bright lights
Never the bright lights