Gaskin - City of Light

Something's going on that I can't understand
People going crazy it's all got out of hand
Down on the corner the kids are getting high
The old man looks the other way he knows he's gonna die
Mother's at the bing father's in the bar
Kids are out cruisin' in a stolen car
Some poor bastard praying for his life
He soon gets an answer from the wrong end of a knife

And it's all so wrong but it keeps on going n
And no one really cares
In the city of lights
Oh in the city
City of lights

Violence in the streets it happens every day
No one want to know they look the other way
White man blames the black black man blames the white
It's a city of hatred the city of lights
They're raping the children and mugging the old
The time has come for the truth to be told
Now you're all saying "What's it got to do with me?"
Hell! we're the people We're society

And it's all so wrong but it keeps on going n
And no one really cares
In the city of lights
Oh in the city
City of lights