This is the place from where I rose While building thrive, the river flows Cracks in the street, the concrete jungle And the cats eat snow Developments for you and me Demolish ancient miseries Preaching London's false affordability Is this a calm city? Til the goons come out tonight Is this a calm city? Where the wrong becomes the right Cool and breezy, calm and easy The geezer on the corner feeling nice and sleazy Shotting off his packet nearly every time he sees me Kids are out in batches getting stabs and slashes Errors in the tower burn it down to ashes Liberals and romantics living side by side with fascists Is this a calm city? Til the goons come out tonight Is this a calm city? Keep out of sight if you wanna stay calm tonight Spoken: Next stop calm city Tickets pleade, where's your ticket mate? Hope you didn't jump the barrier there lad This is calm city not terror town All aboard! Here we go! Is this a calm city? Where the goons come out at night Is this a calm city? Where the wrong becomes the right Calm city Is this a calm city? Is this a calm city? This is not a calm city