Did I Ever Know You Lyrics - Singles - Ellis Paul

So you found yourself a corner apartment 

With a view of the town all your own 

All your friends say 

The city's gonna kill you or cure you 

Five flights of stairs to your home 

And even now, 

It's changed how you walk in the street 

Past cabbies and chimney sweeps 

Be careful with strangers you speak to 

(chorus) 

What has this city done to you? 

Has it taken the small town out of you 

And turned you into someone I never knew? 

When we were kids 

In the warmth of a porch light 

You'd smuggle out twin cigarettes 

We'd blow smoke in the air 

With typical hometown flair 

Two futures we could not predict 

And look at you now, 

The dreamer with the back porch plan 

For the writer and the music man 

Our faces on magazine stands 

(chorus) 

What has this city done to you? 

Has it taken the innocence out of you 

And turned you into someone I never knew? 

Did I ever know you? 

Do you know how you light up these buildings? 

You can turn the head of a man whose grown old 

You're a candle when the streets grow cold 

I can hear a cricket in your fifth floor apartment 

It's 3 am 

Back home he'd put me to sleep 

But he's fighting to be heard 

He can't get in a word 

'cause there's a fool 

Laughing outside in the street 

Where are you now? 

I lost you outside on montague street 

To the city that never will sleep 

Is it the sideshow in you 

That it speaks to? 

(chorus) 

Hey did I ever know you? 

Did I ever know you?