Did I tell you 'bout the time you failed to recognize my heart?

I couldn't find a way to betray you in my arms

You held a beauty but I didn't care

For you parked your markings on your arm there



Did I tell you that inspite of you I sealed my fate?

And that I held you in my gaze to finally pace my gain

And though it always was away from you

Oh I can't deny you like I used to do



So cradle me now in your arms, London city

Listen it's time to forgive and forget

It's funny how you defied something in me

But wait a minute, I've not finished yet



Do you remember when you called me out of Castlereagh Place?

How you swore to me a future through the troubles I'd face?

That broken promise that we feel and tame

Oh but now I realize you were not to blame



So cradle me now in your arms, London city

Surely it's time to forgive and forget

Yeah it's funny how you defied something in me

But wait a minute, I'm not finished yet



Lost friends, River Thames, Caledonian Road, Westminster

St. Paul's Cathedral and the round parts of the Regal

And that bumbling buffoon, the Prime Minister

And the East End where there are hard men

Where they fight for good reason every now and then



In their nods and their smiles, they say I'm so rarified

I'm shining like a beacon in the evening light would

It all left me strong-eyed like an alley cat

But then you fed me and I remember that

So I guess what I'm saying is you're not that bad



So cradle me now in your arms, London city

Surely it's time to forgive and forget

Yeah it's funny how you defied something in me

But wait a minute, I'm not finished yet