This is so damn simple, yeah Sound and pulse and volume Hands just reaching out for hands It's so damn simple You know they feel like you do This is almost overload I said almost overload Friends and foes and princes Are all just human in the end

I love New York Get off my street Other cities always make me mad Other places always make me sad No other city ever made me glad Except New York You get off of my street I don't like cities But I like New York

And just breathe and believe It will be alright I just want you to come back home But tonight for tonight Just let it be Well I don't need you to be my stepping stone I don't need you to be my stepping stone Does it really even matter I got you letter on

You don't have long I am on to you The time, it has come to destroy Your supremacy Wake to see Your true emancipation is a fantasy Have risen up and overcome the brave Greatness dies

With a guitar full of freedom and a head full of lines That nightlife full of demons has been a hell of a ride Married to a dream with a mistress named music I still remember Miss Bessie singing Black, wrinkled fingers on ivory keys Just five years old,

Some days you gotta dance Live it up when you get the chance 'Cause when the world doesn't make no sense And you're feeling just a little too tense Gotta loosen up those chains and dance It was about five 'til five on Friday We were all getting ready to

Some of it you learn the hard way Some of it you read on a page Some of it comes from heartbreak Most of it comes with age And none of it ever comes easy A bunch of it you maybe can't use I know I don't prob'ly know what I think I do But there's

De que me adianta viver na cidade Se a felicidade não me acompanhar Adeus, paulistinha do meu coração Lá pro meu sertão, eu quero voltar Ver a madrugada, quando a passarada Fazendo alvorada, começa a cantar Com satisfação, arreio o burrão Cortando

On the streets of Philadelphia I was bruised and battered, I couldn't tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself Saw my reflection in a window and didn't know my own face Oh brother are you gonna leave me wastin' away I walked the avenue, 'til my

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