So you found yourself a corner apartment

With a view of the town all your own

All your friends say

The city's gonna kill you or cure you

Five flights of stairs to your home



And even now,

It's changed how you walk in the street

Past cabbies and chimney sweeps

Be careful with whom you should speak to





(chorus)

What has this city done to you?

Has it taken the small town out of you

and turned you into someone I never knew?





When we were kids

In the warmth of a porch light

You'd smuggle out twin cigarettes

blowin' smoke in the air

With typical hometown flair

Two futures we could not predict





And look at you now,

When'd you lose sight of our plans

For the writer and the music man

Our faces on magazine stands





(chorus)





What has this city done to you?

Don't let it take the small town out of you

and turned you into someone I never knew?

Did I ever know you?





Do you know how you light up these buildings?

You can turn the head of a man whose grown old

You're a candle when the streets grow cold





I can hear a cricket in your fifth floor apartment

It's 3 AM

Back home he'd put me to sleep

But he's fighting to be heard

He can't get in a word

'Cause there's a fool

Laughing outside in the street





Where are you now?

I lost you outside on Montague Street

To the city that never will sleep

Is it the sideshow in you

That it speaks to?





(chorus)





Hey did I ever know you?

Did I ever know you?