Song For The City Lyrics

From the window I can see the streets glow Home sweet home, welcome to Heathrow Black cabbie and I'm chillin' in my seat low And though it seems cold we're a melting pot of people Some of us are citizens, some of us illegal Ducking police, life in the big smoke No puffin' in public but you could easily choke It ain't our cup of tea to be broke And though they're forever fixing the roads, we love it cause it's home We are no longer Romans though we love it when we roam Double decker buses, underground buskers Wherever you may travel know that you'll be in a zone Capital of England the city is my home And God save the Queen sitting pretty in her throne We love our Royal family, we miss our lady Di And the city's still crying you can see it from the eye
Song for the city I'm singing for the place I call home This is a song for the city Streets turn to pavements of gold And even through the crying grey skies We pray rays of light forever shine on our city You've gotta be proud of where you come from Everybody sing with us
Taking pictures with the pigeons on a family day Out in Trafalgar round the corner there's a council estate Where the kids are playing footy by the 'no ball games' sign Everybody's got a plan to be great Whether that's tailoring on savile row, playing down in Wembley Singing at the Royal Albert Hall or in assembly We've gotta start somewhere to make it to the 02 There ain't much difference between MP's and MC's [ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/song-for-the-city-lyrics-sway.html ] We're all in the party, and most are tryna get mills Dressing up for Notting Hill or shopping down in Westfield Oxford Street or Hyde Park to just chill Great Ormond we pray for all the kids to get well Call me Dr Who because I read this in the booth Turkish Indian African, West Indies down to Pakistan Europeans and Asians, yeah we're the living proof that Israelis and Arabs can live together, we're the truth, it's London

Song for the city I'm singing for the place I call home This is a song for the city Streets turn to pavements of gold And even through the crying grey skies We pray rays of light forever shine on our city You've gotta be proud of where you come from Everybody sing with us
Hope and glory, forgive but don't forget The riots went quiet still we're cleaning up the mess Down in the street down to Downing Street Need to understand the youth and let the MET be the MET See it's not easy to cope spending pounds and gettin' pence But cheers, we raise our glasses and we fill'em like the Thames We're Buckingham Palace Guards, we never frown when we're stressed Even with congestion, we don't even sneeze and we're blessed North South East West, then we're tryna live well Time waits for no one, whenever you hear that big bell That's Big reminding us, there's no rewinding thus Dance with fair ladies even after the bridge fell Fulham Tottenham Arsenal Chelsea West Ham, we're in the same game Differences but when we sing our pitch is in the same place It's not just black and white like the zebra to Abbey Road But it don't take a Beatles picture to see we're in a great place