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