Hot In The City

Album: Billy Idol (1982)
Charted: 13 24
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  • (Stranger, stranger, stranger, stranger)

    It's hot here at night, lonely, black and quiet
    On a hot summer night
    Don't be afraid of the world we made
    On a hot summer night
    'Cause when a long-legged lovely walks by
    Yeah, you can see the look in her eye
    Then you know that it's

    Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight
    Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight

    (Stranger, stranger)

    For all the dreams and schemes
    People are as they seem
    On a hot summer night
    Don't be no fun, don't forget you're young
    On a hot summer night
    A sometime someone you're not
    Don't wait to see what you've got
    'Cause you know that you're

    Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight (alright)
    Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight

    We'll walk until my feet drop
    I'm a train when I'm hateful
    Yeah, lay right down now
    And ride until your head breaks
    I'm a-walkin' 'til my brain pops
    I will move with the beat now
    I'm a chain 'round an A-bomb
    I'm a ribbon in the heat now
    New York!

    Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight
    Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight
    Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight
    Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight
    Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight, tonight
    Hot in the city, hot in the city tonight Writer/s: Billy Idol
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Red Brick Music Publishing
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Comments: 1

  • Greg from Durham, NcThis song was also used as the theme to the 21 Jump Street spinoff, Booker. "New York!" was left out.
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