A song written in collaboration with Nir Levanon, Masa Aeneya, Tiffanie Csortos, and myself about life in a big city, particularly New York. How so many hopeful people come here to make it big and get chewed up by it instead.
lyrics
VERSE:
Opportunity is everywhere
Don't have to be a millionaire
If you can make it here
You can make it anywhere
The simple life is not for me
My name in lights is what I seek
Everybody wants to be a star
Not happy with where they are
CHORUS:
I'm a, jaded, skeptical, city boy
I'm a, jaded, cynical, city boy
I'm a, hardened, criminal, city boy
VERSE:
Nobody told me life could be
So crowded and, so lonely
Hoards of people everywhere
Yet nobody seems to care
The city life is killing me
Can barely feed my family
Ride the train to Rockaway Beach
'Cus the Hamptons are out of reach
CHORUS:
I'm a, jaded, skeptical, city boy
I'm a, jaded, cynical, city boy
I'm a, hardened, criminal, city boy
SOLO
CHORUS:
I'm a, jaded, skeptical, city boy
I'm a, jaded, cynical, city boy
I'm a, hardened, criminal, city boy
Singer/songwriter from Queens, NY. Been playing guitar and writing songs since 1996. Only just started performing my songs
to the public last year due to depression and social anxiety. I have written 100s of songs over the years and over 30 in the last year alone. I have performed over 25 songs live. Largest audience was 100+ people. I have a ways to go, but I'm getting there....more
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