Lyrics to
The City

This version of The City was released by Fleetwood Mac in 1973.

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Gonna stay out of New York
There’s something there that drives me crazy
Gonna stay out of New York
There’s something there that bleeds me dry
It gets so bad that I stop breathin’
And then the sun don’t wanna shine
There’s something wrong with New York
It’s a prison without walls
No I won’t go back there
I just don’t like that place at all
You might call it sophistication
But I say time is runnin’ out
I won’t go back to New York
There’s a darkness all around
No, I just can’t handle it
You know that place is gettin’ me down
You can say it’s sophistication
But I say time is runnin’ out

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About Lyrics and The City by Fleetwood Mac

When you decide to study the lyrics to The City, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Fleetwood Mac. Some of the lyrics to The City have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Fleetwood Mac and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The City if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The City" means the words set to the music of The City, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Fleetwood Mac. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The City and the lyrics to The City are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Fleetwood Mac who came here looking just for the lyrics to The City, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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