these streets are debilitating this city devours souls leaves us tangled in the concrete leaves us strangled in its chokehold these people have a personal vendetta against anything that s real they ll do anything to create an illusion do anything to conceal all the emptiness the vacuous cavity beneath a pretty face all the pettiness the festering depravity capped under an image of grace we have lost our faith in humanity and there is no questioning why there s nothing that i see here worth saving it took my life but i won t cry i d abandon it all without a tearful goodbye something in the air tonight i almost forget where i am the future expands the stars align and i begin to believe again there s something in the air tonight something will carry me through and when you re standing by my side i know i ve found the one thing that s true distortions have no power over me now the image warps against a torn facade now something in the air tonight something will carry me through and when you re standing by my side i know i ve found the one thing that s true something in the air tonight i begin to believe again the future expands the stars align i almost forget where i am  