Bright Lights Big City

Bright lights big city burned my baby's eyes And like a fool I swallowed my baby's lies I followed her round like a dog Et up her lies like a hog And just as I'm set to explode she says Daddy don't leave me Newsman says people like her are born under a bad sign They said they found a knife in my baby's hands Well I was not there at the time But agterwards I read the headlines She looks up at me with those brown eyes Says Daddy don't leave me Believe me I climb to the top of a no-tree hill Stare hard as I can at the sun I say why did you have to rise today? And what did she mean to you anyway? It will take a strong anaesthetic to keep her away Nightly I rinse out my blood to clean off the mark she made I'm going back home now to be of some help, be of some good For a while then I could have been a goner I could have been lost for good Bright Lights! Drink up, it's getting dimmer now! Bright Lights! Getting darker now Bright lights big city burned my baby's eyes And like a fool I swallowed my baby's lies I followed her round like a lap-dog Et up her lies like a sap-hog And just as I'm set to explode she says Daddy don't leave me Leave me, don't believe me Don't leave me