Living For The City-Stevie Wonder

[ti:Living For The City] [ar:Stevie Wonder] [al:Original Musiquarium 1 CD1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:12.14]A boy is born in hard time mississippi [00:14.45] [00:16.14]Surrounded by four walls that ain’t so pretty [00:20.20] [00:21.33]His parents give him love and affection [00:23.00] [00:26.93]To keep him strong moving in the right direction [00:29.75] [00:30.43]Living just enough just enough for the city ee ha [00:35.68] [00:41.12]His father works some days for fourteen hours [00:43.87] [00:45.93]And you can bet he barely makes a dollar [00:48.74]His mother goes to scrub the floors for many [00:54.49] [00:55.30]And you’d best believe she hardly gets a penny [00:58.56] [00:59.62]Living just enough just enough for the city yeah [01:05.19] [01:27.37]His sister’s black but she is sho’nuff pretty [01:32.69]Her skirt is short but lord her legs are sturdy [01:37.82]To walk to school she’s got to get up early [01:41.12] [01:41.94]Her clothes are old but never are they dirty [01:44.69] [01:45.75]Living just enough just enough for the city um hum [01:51.32] [01:56.63]Her brother’s smart he’s got more sense than many [02:00.69] [02:01.88]His patience’s long but soon he won’t have any [02:05.59] [02:06.59]To find a job is like a haystack needle [02:09.29] [02:11.17]Cause where he lives they don’t use colored people [02:14.48] [02:15.35]Living just enough just enough for the city [02:18.29] [02:52.92]Living just enough For the city [02:56.09] [03:00.77]His hair is long his feet are hard and gritty [03:03.84]He spends his life walking the streets of new york city [03:08.03] [03:08.71]He’s almost dead from breathing in air pollution [03:11.96] [03:13.34]He tried to vote but to him there’s no solution [03:17.28] [03:19.59]Living just enough just enough for the city [03:22.53]Yeah yeah yeah [03:23.34]I hope you hear inside my voice of sorrow [03:25.71]And that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow [03:29.46] [03:30.33]This place is cruel no where could be much colder [03:35.15]If we don’t change the world will soon be over [03:39.03]Living just enough stop giving just enough for the city