City (Stadt)

All of this is much too much

Always advertising

No more room and no more space

but nowhere left for hiding

All the streets are crowded now

Happiness is nameless

Nobody can understand

This place is so damn shameless

Chorus:

I'll build a city for you

of glass and gold and stone

and every road that leads out will

lead us back on through

I'll build a place for me

For me and you

No one knows what she looks like now

or even what they call her

Everyone here is on the run

Chasing their next dollar

There's gotta be a way to change this

hopeless feeling

How can I defy this? How can I uprise us?

The sky is like a ceiling

I won't answer anymore

to all of these wrong questions

The time we have is fading fast

and no one's got suggestions

Chorus x2

A city with no evidence of fear, only trust

Where all the walls we build are not packed and filled

with greed and selfishness

Where all the lights are calm

and the water flows

and it's safe inside

and everybody knows

That we don't need all this noise and excess just to feel complete

Chorus x2