SWAY - Song For The City lyrics
rate me(ft. Ed Drewett)
From the window I can see the streets glow
Home sweet home, welcome to Heathrow
Black cabbie and I'm chillin in my seat low
And though it seems cold we're a melting pot of people
Some of us citizens, some of us illegal
Duckin plice, life in the big smoke
No puffin in public, but you could easily choke
It ain't our cup of tea to be broke
They're forever fixing the roads
We love it cause it's home
We are no longer Romans though he love it when we roam
Double decker buses, underground buskers
Wherever you may travel know that you'll be in a zone
Capital of England, the city is my own
And God save the queen sitting pretty in her throne
We love our royal family, we miss our Lady D
And the city's still crying, you can see it from the Eye
Chorus:
Song for the city,
I'm singing for the place I call home
This is a song for the city
Streets turn to Pavements of Gold
And even through the crying red sky
We pray rays of light forever shine on our city
You gotta be proud of where you come from
Everybody sing with us!
People taking pictures with the pigeons on a family day
Out in Trafalgar round the corner there's a council estate
Where the kids are playing footy by the no ball games sign
Everybody's got a plan to be great
Whether that's tailoring on savile row
Playing down in Wembley
Singing at the Royal Albert Hall or in an assembly
We've gotta start somewhere to make it to the o2
There ain't much difference between MP's and MC's
We're all in the party and most are tryna to get mills
Dressing up for Notting Hills or shopping down in Westfield
Oxford street or Hyde Park to just chill
Greatormond, we pray for all the kids to get well
Call me Dr. Who because I read this in the booth
Trukish, Indian, African, West Indies, Pakistan
Europeans and Asians, yeah, we're the living proof
That Israelis and Arabs can live together where the truth it's London
Chorus:
Song for the city,
I'm singing for the place I call home
This is a song for the city
Streets turn to Pavements of Gold
And even through the crying red sky
We pray rays of light forever shine on our city
You gotta be proud of where you come from
Everybody sing with us!
Hope and glory, forgive but don't forget
The riots went quiet still we cleaning up the mess
Down in the street, down to downing street
Need to understand the youth and let the met be the met
See, it's not easy to cope spending pounds and getting pence
But cheers, we raise our glasses and we fill them like the Thames
We're Buckingham palace guards whenever frown when we're stressed
Even with congestion, we don't even sneeze and we're blessed.
North East South West and we're tryna live well
Time waits for no one whenever you hear that big bell
That's been reminding us, there's no rewinding thus
I dance with fair ladies, even after the bridge fell for them
Fulham Tottenham Arsenal Chelsea West Ham we're in the same game
Differences, but when we sing our pitch is in the same place.
This is not as much as black and white like the Zebra to Abbey Road
But it don't take a Beatles picture to see we're in a great place
