Story Behind The Song

Sometimes you come across people whose dreams are all they have. They give it their best shot, but the train doesn't stop for them. In the end, they escape into themselves to have any world at all.

Song Description

You're young, you're from somewhere else, but you have big dreams. Then life becomes merely a process of disillusionment. You fall in love, but you've never been loved... you're no good at it, and you realize you will probably go through life alone. You build your own universe, and escape into it; the doorway is the city night, and the universe is the one you dream up and imagine.

Lyrics

Nicky G.

© 1994, Words and Music by John Gahl

Kicking and screaming Nicky G. was born At the bottom of a flight of stairs
His Mama didn?t hold him long She knew he wasn?t going anywhere.
Soon as he was old enough They tried to teach him that the world was round
But the peg of Nicky?s soul was square It wouldn?t hammer down into the ground

Son las canciones de la ciudad Son las canciones de Los Angeles
Son las canciones de la ciudad Son las canciones de Los Angeles

Nicky saw his angel on the crosstown bus At the end of an endless day
Through the window of his eyes she heard his song All the words he never learned to say
And so they dreamed each other?s dreams While he lay tangled in her hair
How could she know, how could she know There are some hearts just beyond repair

Son las canciones de la ciudad Son las canciones de Los Angeles
Son las canciones de la ciudad Son las canciones de Los Angeles

In the airshaft in the barrio Nicky stays up waiting for the moon
Waits for her to show her pretty face And reach her silver hand down into his empty room
In the neon of the city night She takes him high up into the air
And Nicky dances, dances, with the angels Way up there, somewhere

Son las canciones de la ciudad Son las canciones de Los Angeles
Son las canciones de la ciudad Son las canciones de Los Angeles