Young In The City

Scialfa Patti

I ferried my dreams across the water 
Underneath a faceless moon 
I woke to find myself uncovered 
In this dark and dusty room 
Take me up the wooden stairs 
Where the windows are open wide 
There we can watch the city skyline 
Tremble in the heat waves rolling by 
And don't the world look pretty 
When you're young in the city 

So there I was 
Ophelia climbing 
Through these tangled threads of light 
I was caught 
Open and bleeding 
But I was willing to stay the night 
Take me down to where the buildings 
Stand empty at our feet 
Where the dirty Hudson River 
And the sweet blue oceans meet 
And don't the world look pretty 
When you're young in the city 

Don't you sometimes wonder 
Why it all goes by so fast 
I held you in my fingers 
Now I hold you in my past 
Once I watched you walk on water 
Now I watch you walk across the room 
I always thought wed have forever 
Now these forevers go by too soon 
Take me down to the streets below 
Where the moon and traffic lights 
Guide us while we go dreaming 
Thru another sleepless night 
And don't the world look pretty 
When you're young in the city