City Of Strangers

[Intro] (soft city ambience) Streetlights flicker in the rain Everybody looks away Neon shadows move like ghosts Through the city’s endless veins [Verse 1] I saw a woman in a taxi Trying hard not to cry A businessman kept laughing With exhaustion in his eyes Two lovers smoking silently Outside a crowded bar And every glowing window Felt closer than they are [Pre-Chorus] Millions of hearts beating Under neon skies Everybody searching But nobody arrives [Chorus] This city’s full of strangers Walking through each other’s lives We dance around the silence Every single night I’ve seen a million faces Disappear into the light In this city of strangers Nobody really survives [Verse 2] A boy was playing music Down inside the underground People moved around him Like he didn’t make a sound The train kept screaming softly Beneath the sleeping streets And all these moving shadows Look just like you and me [Pre-Chorus] Millions of small stories Burning in the dark Everybody hiding Broken little hearts [Chorus] This city’s full of strangers Walking through each other’s lives We dance around the silence Every single night I’ve seen a million faces Disappear into the light In this city of strangers Nobody really survives [Bridge] (stripped instrumentation) Maybe everybody here Is terrified inside Trying to feel something real Before the lights all die Maybe all these lonely souls Are mirrors in disguise Trying to feel human For just one night [Final Chorus] (bigger and emotional) This city’s full of strangers Trying hard to feel alive Lost inside the motion Of a never-ending night And if nobody sees me At least I know I tried In this city of strangers I was here tonight