I Cannot Hear the City Songtext

von Marvin Hamlisch

I cannot hear the city
I cannot hear a sound
The roar and rush become a hush
Whenever you're around
The world beyond our window
The fury and the fuss
Grow distant now
And fade somehow with us.

But here inside the world you let me see
It simpler than we often let it be
I give you strength, but also set you free
I offer you, you
I offer you, me.

I cannot hear the city
I know it must be there
The waiting town is waiting down the stair
We'll make it vanish
In the thin, thin air.

It's like we're on an island
An island of our own
Upon a sea that only we have known.

But here inside the world you let me see
It simpler than we often let it be
I give you strength, but also set you free
I offer you, you
I offer you, me.

I cannot hear the city
I know it must be there
The waiting town is waiting down the stair
We'll make it vanish
In the thin, thin air.