The Downtown Lights

Album: Hats (1989)
Charted: 67
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  • Sometimes I walk away
    When all I really wanna do
    Is love and hold you right
    There is just one thing I can say
    Nobody loves you this way
    It's alright, can't you see?
    The downtown lights

    In love we're all the same
    We're walking down an empty street
    And with nobody, call your name
    Empty streets, empty nights
    The downtown lights

    How do I know you'll feel it?
    How do I know you'll feel it?
    How do I know you'll feel it?
    How do I know it's true?
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's alright

    Tonight and every night
    Let's go walking down this empty street
    Let's walk in the cool evening light
    Wrong or right, be at my side
    The downtown lights

    It will be alright
    It will be alright
    The downtown lights
    Yeah, yeah

    How do I know you'll feel it?
    How do I know you'll feel it?
    How do I know you'll feel it?
    How do I know it's true?

    It's alright
    It's alright
    The downtown lights
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah

    How do I know you'll feel it?
    How do I know you'll feel it?
    How do I know you'll feel it?
    How do I know it's true?
    Yeah, yeah, yeah
    The downtown lights

    The neon's and the cigarettes
    Rented rooms or rented cars
    The crowded streets, the empty bars
    Chimney tops and trumpets
    The golden lights, the loving prayers
    The colored shoes, the empty trains
    I'm tired of crying on the stairs
    The downtown lights

    Yeah, yeah
    Yeah, yeah Writer/s: Paul Gerard Buchanan
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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