BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY

Bright lights big city

burned my baby's eyes

And like a fool I swallowed

my baby's lies

I followed her round like a dog

Et up her lies like a hog

And just as I'm set to explode

she says Daddy don't leave me

Newsman says people like her

are born under a bad sign

They said they found a knife

in my baby's hands

Well I was not there at the time

But agterwards I read the headlines

She looks up at me with those brown eyes

Says Daddy don't leave me

Believe me

I climb to the top of a no-tree hill

Stare hard as I can at the sun

I say why did you have to rise today ?

And what did she mean to you anyway ?

It will take a strong anaesthetic

to keep her away

Nightly I rinse out my blood

to clean off the mark she made

I'm going back home now

to be of some help, be of some good

For a while then I could have been a goner

I could have been lost for good

Bright Lights! Drink up, it's getting

dimmer now! Bright Lights!

Getting darker now

Bright lights big city

burned my baby's eyes

And like a fool I swallowed

my baby's lies

I followed her round like a lap-dog

Et up her lies like a sap-hog

And just as I'm set to explode

she says Daddy don't leave me

Leave me, don't believe me

Don't leave me