Send my love to the city    Cause I'll be having an affair this summer    And this town's very gritty    So I'll be living off the life of another       You say come back, relax!    I drinks stacks and move slow, move out the window    Get a job, learn to dance,    Grow plants, hear fascist remarks and chants       Wear velvet, walk the street    Smoke Gouloises, laugh at the people you meet    Drink long island, be an island    You're an island, then this is your island       Well you're stranded out there    You're the policeman out there    You're the law-aw-aw out there    You are the one who rules out there       So you laugh in the face of disgrace    You're the leader of the pack    This is your generation    Grab your A-Zs    Flick in the back    And plan world domination       Send my love to the city    Cause I'll be having an affair this summer    And this town's very gritty    So I'll be living off the life of another       You say you're are a city avenger    In an English garden waiting for the sun    You've been caught with your pants down    You say 'I am the walrus'    But it really hasn't hit town       I say 'darling, do you laugh or cry    Or scream or howl at midnight    Is it wise to go out alone    Without a phone in your hand?'       Is the man, who grasped the lies    And he ate the pies    Which had the facts in    To kill all the experts and what they are trapped in       So breathe some air    Run away for a day, a lover not a tearaway    My friend, the city is close    But clarity is far away.       Send my love to the city    Cause I'll be having an affair this summer    And this town's very gritty    So I'll be living off the life of another       [interlude]       Send my love to the city    Cause I'll be having an affair this summer    And this town's very gritty    So I'll be living off the life of another       Send my love, oh send my love    Send my love, send my love, send my love, oh    Break my heart, oh break my heart,    Break my heart, break my heart, break my heart, oh    Send my love, oh send my love    Send my love, send my love, send my love, oh    This town, oh this town    This town is tearing me apart    And the city's dead up in my head    The city's dead up in my head    And it got you nowhere, no    To be romantic and square    Is so hip and aware    Romantic and square    So hip and aware    Romantic and square    So hip and aware    Romantic and square    So hip and aware    So send my love...    Won't you please send my love...    Please break my heart!