Inna City Mamma - Neneh Cherry

New York — Just like I pictured it — skyscrapers and everything

Inna city love, you crushed me into a pulp — I trusted you

When I loved you from a distance

And your skyline made me a promise

In my safe world to be somebody

In your city to own your streets

Where I’d strut covered in money

Shattered dreams.

It ain’t funny

Now I look at you with tears in my eyes

The good the bad the ugly

As I start to cry I search for the sky

Taste the breeze and watch a block of docking clouds, they’re coming.

Chorus:

Inna City Mamma

You bore another child to be victim of Your cold blooded ways

Inna city love

From the gutter

So destructive when you sing your blues

I want to love you baby

I don’t mean maybe baby, but I need everything you got

You can’t break your promise

I’m inna city hunger, you think you’re tough I’m stronger

If you’re weak I’ll eat you up

I’m gonna touch you where you’ve never been touched before

And by your spine I’ll bruise your veins and touch your very core

Let my concrete be your red carpet

My shooting galleries your personal starship

Give me all your dreams, this city loves you

Use my roots to deliver your body

Under my skies where you make your money