The city's ours tonight
if we try
and we'll try believe me
i couldn't sleep at night
If I tried
And I tried

Sparks light up underground
The busy sounds
They agree to me
The skyscraper lights
Our city
Looks beautiful at night

but in a while
we'll step through the turnstyle
back underground
to the fastest trains in the world

is there a show tonight
or somewhere
somewhere warm we could go
we are afraid of the dark
and we don't know
we don't know which way to go

the city's ours tonight
if we try
and we'll try believe me
i couldn't sleep at night
if i tried
and i tried

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I know a place where I do not grow tired of
Falling in and out of heterosexual love
so grab the bull by the horns and make a list
of the things we love about U.S.
Hope, opportunities, musical comedies
Various different geographies
The birth of rock, jazz, country & western
The idea of importance of the self
Gorgeous metropolis of the northeastern
the quiet towns of everywhere else

God bless our boys
Well they are real soldiers
God bless our boys

There's just enough wrong to make it interesting
Just enough right to make it worthwhile
There's so much to see and take for granted
So many places to go in style
The land of my birth I've tried so hard to love
Can't be so horribly awful, can it
These are the things that may tear us apart
These are the things that shoot straight into the heart
So what if I wanna enjoy this country and dance along all through the night to this next song? Just to this next song-
God Bless Our Boys
well they are real soldiers
God Bless Our Boys

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I'LL BE ALRIGHT
Waiting up, but it's getting late
Sometimes I wonder why I wait
I should know better but I hope tonight
Will be different
Raindrops fall on the windowpane
Locking me inside my brain
I don't want to go out but
I don't want to be alone

And every time I tell myself
I'll be alright, I'll be alright
But here I am, not better now than the day before
And I know I will never find
A better life until I've tried
And when I try, I'll be alright

Mirror cracks and it makes me smile
Looks like me in a different style
I only wish that I could be what I could be

I'd wake up cold afraid of my shadow
Scared of things that I have seen in my dreams
All my fears have been self-created
Watch them burn so deep within my soul, in my soul
In my soul...





All music & lyrics by Marina Verenikina & Nick Baker (c) 2005 Crazy Apples Worldwide, ASCAP

Marina's Notes:
You have to get off your ass & let go of your fears to make things happen. Nothing will come to you unless you do something about it. When I came up with the music for this song, I had the Ramones tribute album in my CD player. If you speed up the song and use guitars, you’ll hear the influence, especially in the verses.

www.MarinaV.com

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