Icy steel shooting through concrete, cool city    Mountains of glass reflect the sky    Everybody feels real good in cool city    Each day brings a new surprise    Johnny came two-thousand miles to the cool city    He came to see what makes things tick    He cut his hair and bought new clothes in the cool city    Finally found his life's ambition       How to do nothing perfectly    To do it with style so gracefully    'Cause life is so delicious in Cool City       Outside no one's on the street    Don't stop or you'll miss a beat       Someone's standing in a doorway -- cool city    You open the door and check him out so casually    The music's blasting all night long in cool city    They recognize his face, so it's all right    This one knew the right address    He even knew someone in a band    While the others wait all night standing there in    Cool city       So hard to make the right friends    You might have to sell some skin    The nights go on forever       The blacks they all hate the whites    The whites think they're tough, but they're not, cool city    The boys go out with each other    The girls who will be in movies       If you're high, you're in the right place, cool city    Animals seek out their own kind    Shake some hands and take a lunch in cool city    Someone's going to try and tempt you    Listen to all the brilliant plans in the cool city    It's all free now, but you'll pay later with your soul    Pray to the the objects on the wall    That you'll stay young and never grow old    So come on, the water's fine    Have a drink, snort a line    'Cause the nights get very chilly here in cool city