Song Description

coming of age on the long road growing up in a city and learing theres a whole world out there waiting to be loved

Lyrics

No big city

I remember being young when I went downtown
all the buildings so tall I van't see
the clouds in the sky they were blocking th sun
and their shadows would black out the streets
people walk for miles just to get back to work
all the cars and buses stealing the scene
of one homeless man who is sleeping on the corner
with a newspaper pilow - obscene

now it's no big city - anymore
it's no big city - not to me - anymore

now it's time to grow up and stay out all night
the dowtown clubs got the beat
and the girls in the bars - well they drink too much
and the drugs really trun on the heat
the lights at night would shine on the river
while I'm heading east to wake up my mind
and now the sun is coming up over east saint louis
and I am wide awake walking the blind

but it's no big city - anymore
it's no big city - not to me - anymore

34 years later from the day I was born
in the same city almsot all of my life
I learned right from wrong black and white
sometimes at the blade of a knife
but now it all makes sense why we need to stay together
and work on fighting the good fight
cause the time will come to open our hearts
our minds and become one tonight

cause it's no big city
anymore
it's no big city
not to me
anymore