Well, they say that home is where the heart is   But you left way back and started roaming   For these streets that were so full of promise   Mother's love is what you've turned away from      Now you're trapped down in the city of light   You'll go crazy, try as you might   You'll get lost in the maze of the city of light   City of light      Lines are drawn 'cross windows facing nowhere   In the day, the darkness is complete   Close your eyes and try to cry away your nightmares   You just know the downtown city street      Where darkness reigns down in the city of light   You'll go crazy, try as you might   There's no end to your days in the city of light   City of light      You know these streets so well   Each drugstore, nightclub and bar   Don't try to run from here   You're not allowed to get far      Workers prowl the lost the paths be open   Invitations to liaisons swift and cold   In rainswept streets the pimps are calculating   Acts of haste the clients lies they bought and sold      Sell yours too down in the city of light   Things go hazy, try as you might   You'll go blind in the gaze of the city of light   City of light      There's been sudden death a knife down on the eastside   You can stand so much, then instinct takes its head   And though the people say that home is where the heart is   They don't know that this damned city's heart is dead      There's no escape down in the city of light   You'll go crazy, try as you might   You can never be saved from the city of light   City of light      You know these streets too well   Each drugstore, nightclub and dive,   There's no route out of here   You only know one way to survive