From the recording Dangerous Love -- Bonus Tracks

Sax by Tom Scott

Lyrics

HEARTS OF THE CITY

I wake up in the morning
To the scratch of Jack—
That’s my kitty…
If she could see me and this cat here
She’d laugh,
If it weren’t such a pity
It used to be so easy,
I’d just write another tune
This time being alone
Has got me screamin’ at the moon

It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
Without June

Jack says: ”find another bitch if you can”
We’ll, I can—I don’t wanna!
Sure there’s oh-so-many fish in the sea,
Don’t you see? I’m a goner.
What I used to take for granted
Is like breath to me now
And I’m grasping for each precious taste
This body will allow

It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
Without June

Another one comes
Another one goes
How easily it happens,
Soon you just don’t know--
I’m like some beggar man stayed too
long at the fair
I keep imagining my kewpie doll is there--
But the more I’m talkin’ to her,
All the more she does is stare!

Now there ain’t nothin’ more I can say—
Gonna write her a letter.
I’ve got nothin’ left to lose but my pride,
The sooner the better!
Gonna write this guy who once had everything,
Lives alone with a cat
Chasin’ his ball and string, and singing:

It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
Without June

It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
It’s so hard to find my heart in the city
It’s so hard to find my heart in the city…

Words and Music by Richard Baskin