New York - Just like I pictured it - skyscrapers and everything
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Inna city love, you crushed me into a pulp - I trusted you
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When I loved you from a distance
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And your skyline made me a promise
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In my safe world to be somebody
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In your city to own your streets
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Where I'd strut covered in money
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Shattered dreams. It ain't funny
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Now I look at you with tears in my eyes
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The good the bad the ugly
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As I start to cry I search for the sky
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Taste the breeze and watch a block of docking clouds, they're coming.
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Chorus:
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Inna City Mamma
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You bore another child to be victim of
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Your cold blooded ways
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Inna city love
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From the gutter
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So destructive when you sing your blues
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I want to love you baby
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I don't mean maybe baby, but I need everything you got
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You can't break your promise
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I'm inna city hunger, you think you're tough I'm stronger
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If you're weak I'll eat you up
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I'm gonna touch you where you've never been touched before
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And by your spine I'll bruise your veins and touch your very core
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Let my concrete be your red carpet
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My shooting galleries your personal starship
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Give me all your dreams, this city loves you
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Use my roots to deliver your body
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Under my skies where you make your money
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You rejected love, but this city loves you
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Chorus:
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Inna city love, inna city mamma, inna city love
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You hurt me - real bad - inna city love
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You meant to love me and you cut me up into too many little pieces
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But I wanna love you
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I trusted you and you crushed me into a pulp
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Inna city mamma
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Inna City Mamma
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Neneh Cherry |