Sirens In The City - David Baerwald

Look at the city

Sinking like a ship

Look at that tired river boil

Look at that chain of cars piling up

Look at that city of toil

A rich man is cursing

Behind the wheel

Of a jacked up Cadillac Benz

An ambulance crawling

Crippled by the traffic

While the indifferent night descends

A playground full of children

The laughing sound of children

Sirens in the city

But lord how I love this town

Sirens in the city

But lord how I love this town

Crime in the streets

It’s almost more than I can bear

It happened again last week

But nobody seems to care and

I ride across the river

I visit my poor old ma

Ride the subway back into Manhattan

Oh buddy

There’s no such thing as the law

So who’s gonna save the children?

Who’s gonna save the children?

Sirens in the city

But lord how I love this town

Sirens in the city

But lord how I love this town

You know I went out to make it better

And what thanks did I get?

Six long years

Across the bridge of tears

Well you ain’t seen nothing yet

You ain’t seen nothing yet