[Verse 1]
Coffee steam on the crosswalk
Wrinkled suits
Plastic bags swing
Phone-glow faces
Late-day races
Nobody looks up at anything
Subway breath on the stairwell
Newsstand papers in a lean
I’m tuning up by the deli door
Dust on my ripped blue jeans (mm)
[Chorus]
Singin’ to the urban jungle
You just hurry on by
Your car horns argue in another language
While I’m throwin’ my heart at the sky
I’m strummin’ to the urban jungle
Loose change lands with a sigh
If you don’t have a minute for a story
Take this chorus with you as you fly
[Verse 2]
Kid kicks chalk off the curbside
Old man nods
But he won’t stay long
Street vendor calls you “brother
Sister”
I trade a song for a paper cup of strong
Green light
Red light
Never still
Cabs confess in a crooked line
I sing slow in the rushing river
Tryin’ to bend your clock to mine (hey)
[Bridge]
Do you hear that laugh on the rooftop?
Do you taste that rain in the smoke?
Every stare that slides right past me
Is another half-finished joke
If you ever feel like a stranger
In your own name
Your own skin
Follow this crooked melody
Love
It’ll walk you gently back in
[Chorus]
Singin’ to the urban jungle
You just hurry on by
Your car horns argue in another language
While I’m throwin’ my heart at the sky
I’m strummin’ to the urban jungle
Loose change lands with a sigh
If you don’t have a minute for a story
Take this chorus with you as you fly