It's another
night in the city of lights
I sit back, take it all in
It's another night in the city of lights
I close my eyes and the
sun comes again
New York, New York, that's my city, baby,
T .O .C., baby
What do you want from me?
Are you saying I shouldn't raise hell?
I'll give you true tales,
you're concerned with who sells
Where do you benefit from,
who balls or who fell?
First Family! rolling your bail, time to unfail
And climbing your hole,
the homies do rap like black rock and roll
It ain't no party like a Mopi party, dawg
A Mopi party don't welcome everybody,
dawg
And we gon' lay it down
He'll show him how to party right
With straight bags and half
-pints of Bacardi type
You start a fight
We do it as a ritual, it's pitiful
Y 'all cats ain't keepin'
rap traditional
You're listenin' to the words of me
I ain't tryna hit you with the third degree
What you heard of me?
I'm the original
Y 'all wait for me to change
I just sit back, relax,
and nurse the game, nigga
It's a lovin' night in the city of lights
I sit back and take it all in
Yo, city, my city, our city, baby
Here in the city, her city, our city, baby
Another guy, another city in life
Close my eyes, close my eyes again
Yo city, my city, our city, baby
Here in the city, her city,
our city, baby
Another guy, city in life
I sit back, take it all in
Yo city, my city, our city, baby
Here in the her city, our city, baby
Another guy, city in life
I my eyes and it's not us again
New York, New York,
that's my city, baby
TLC, baby based on life stories, yeah
I illustrate a portrait of pain
On how we got lost in the game
I think back to the good times
The rise and fall, the sorrow and pain
That come with it,
the names of those that did it to win
These are the days of my life,
wish I could live it again
But I can't, times of a fast life decay
Motion picture, fast forward my life
Squeeze play to the days
of the tunes from the lows
And it's mad fake love,
snake cats and half -baked thugs
Goddamn homie, what changed you,
them words in your hand?
Did you really have to murder your man
with the greed to earn friends?
It's a handful of real niggas
just left that ain't dead
They in jail and they can't understand
how one nigga can fuck up a plan
I have a nigga mentally dead,
confined in a can
It's another night in city of lights
I sit back and take it all in
Yo city, my city, our city baby
His city, her city, our city baby
It's another night in the city of lights
Close my eyes for some fun again
Yo city, my city, our city baby
His city, her city, our city baby
It's another night in the of lights
I sit back and take it all in
I said, your city, my city, our city, baby
His city, her city, our city, baby
Oh, can love the night
and the city of lights
Close my eyes when the sun
comes again
New York, New York
That's my city, baby
To your city, baby
We can love the night and the city of lights
Oh, it's another night in the
city of money
It's another night in of money