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Now the city is wearing its evening dress
A sea of lights in the darkness
The great loneliness
Enter every house at this time

We live like small islands
You don't even know who lives next to you
You all don't know each other
In the same world full of noise and light

Many thousands of windows
Shine bright in this city
And you wonder who might be behind it
Many thousands of windows silently say someone still lives here
Just like you, so lonely and alone

Can't that be the person over there
That you dream about year in, year out
That would be your home
But you are separated from him by a sea of houses

Tomorrow your heart will be just as empty
Then you hope just as much
Not to be so alone
In the grey world of steel and stone

Many thousands of windows
Shine bright in this city
And you wonder who might be behind it
Many thousands of windows silently say someone still lives here
Just like you, so lonely and alone