Story Behind The Song

I left my heart in Toronto when I moved to Vancouver....

Song Description

An hommage to Toronto, for everything I love and hate it for, and to the man that I hated to love and loved to hate. And to those fantastic Canadian summer nights that just melt themselves into our memories, when it's sweltering hot...

Lyrics

Zero three one one nineteen eighty three
into the world came little old me
I lived in a farm house in a hippie town
left just years before the place burnt down
moved uphill in nineteen eighty nine
seemed like a pretty cool place at the time
but ten years later, one day outside a mall,
suddenly I felt like my crib was too small
so I packed my shit and I ran away
and I busted my ass every single day
just to make ends meet, it was tought at the start
but I don't regret a thing, from the bottom of my heart
I love the city.
I love the city.

Now I'm just a little thing in a big place
but I've got the attitude to fill the space
I always manage to insult everybody in my place
in a small town, I'm a disgrace
I'd be like a big fish, in a small pool
I'd have to watch what I say
'cause a few key people might now think I'm cool
My reputation could be ruined that day
That's just the way it goes, you know,
word gets around
Everybody talks, everybody knows,
what goes on in a small town
That's just the way it goes
word gets around
Everybody talks, and everybody knows,
what goes on in a small town.
I love the city.
Yeah, I love the city.
I love the city.
I love the city.
And I love you, baby, I'm still thinking about
You and me, on a summer night
We were the only stars in sight.
And I'm still thinking about you and me, on a summer night,
kissed beneath the neon lights.

I love the city, I love the freaks
gettin' all dolled up just to walk down the street
and the crazy lady who always smiles at me
on the same street corner, seven days a week
I love the city, I love the stress
Everyday I put my wits to the test
It's a contant struggle to be better than the best
and I love the animosity
I love the city, I love my peeps
I love underground shopping sprees
I love living my life anonimously
within the concrete walls surrounding me
I love the city.
I love the city.
I love the city.
And I love you, baby,
I'm still thinking about
You and me, on a summer night
We were the only stars in sight.
And I'm still thinking about you and me,
on a summer night,
kissed beneathe the neon lights....

I loved the city. I love the streets.
I love the unbearable summer heat
where nothing occurs naturally
the grass is brown, but the people are green
and the sun always shines with even more uv's
'Cause this is the land of opportunities
we got a hole in the sky from our suv's
but we got cash to burn and we got luxuries
I love the city.
I love, I love, I love the city.....