Did I Ever Know You Lyrics

So you found yourself a corner apartment With a view of the town all your own All your friends say The city's gonna kill you orc ure you Five flights of stairs to your home And even now, It's changed how you walk in the street Past cabbies and chimney sweeps Be careful with strangers you speak to (chorus) What has this city done to you? Has it taken the small town out of you and turned you into someone I never knew? When we were kids In the warmth of a porch light You'd smuggle out twin cigarettes We'd blow smoke in the air With typical hometown flair Two futures we could not predict And look at you now, The dreamer with the back porch plan For the writer and the music man Our faces on magazine stands (chorus) What has this city done to you? Has it taken the innocence out of you and turned you into someone I never knew? Did I ever know you? Do you know how you light up these buildings? You can turn the head of a man whose grown old You're a candle when the streets grow cold I can hear a cricket in your fifth floor apartment It's 3 AM Back home he'd put me to sleep But he's fighting to be heard He can't get in a word 'Cause there's a fool Laughing outside in the street Where are you now? I lost you outside on Montague Street To the city that never will sleep Is it the sideshow in you That it speaks to? (chorus) Hey did I ever know you? Did I ever know you?