As the midnight fades in boys town

And the hustle stops to glow

This urban landscape sprawls before me

And the hunger starts to grow

But something more than my daddy showed to me

How he wanted to make a man of me

Living in the lonely cities of the heart

Hiding in the shadows and searching in the dark



My mama reads me like an open book

She knows when I'm up or down

But every night I stay longer

In the creole part of town

Something more than what the good lord gave to me

Something more, much more than this

Living in the lonely cities of the heart

Hiding in the shadows, searching in the dark



And it never stops, no it never stops, no one defends you now

Living in the lonely cities of the heart



(instrumental)



I can take a little pain, but not tonight again



Outside my hotel window I hear the Mardi Gras

Keep the candle burning bright Babe, i've come too far

As daylight creeps through the curtains I start to slip away,

And everything that seems so certain is just another day



Living in the lonely cities of the heart

Hiding in the shadows searching in the dark

And it never stops, no it never stops, no one defends you now

Living in the lonely cities of the heart

Hiding in the shadows searching in the dark

And it never stops, no it never stops, no one defends you now

Living in the lonely cities of the heart

Living in the lonely cities of the heart...