Inner Cities

If love is a country, can I visit you there? If life is a city, we would live somewhere In the center, on top of some bar With a view of all the traffic, the rivers of cars I just can't believe the dangers one must survive Couldn't leave alive even if we tried While all the bad girls and sad boys sharpen their knives In the inner cities of our lives I'd write you from the airport I'd write you from hotels I'll write you from the other side And I hope it finds you well You know I'll never be Like one of those cynics on TV 'Cause life is not a transit hall No backstage lounge No long-forgotten shopping mall Now the whole world's missing out on you I cried and knew, we travel light To the inner cities of our lives The inner cities of our lives I know it doesn't help staring at the clock Knowing tonight that the time will stop I round up the demons surrounding me I'd like to see their manager, please I lit a candle and knew its light Could handle the dark the entire night Now the only chance that we'll ever meet Is if I see you on the street In the inner cities of our lives The inner cities of our lives