High-rise buildings
   Low cost apartments
   Financial district
   Industrial area
   Rows of blue collars
   Steelworkers' clink-clang
   Metal rhythm left and right
   This is the city, city of light
  
   Flicker
   Click on
   Click off
   Click on
   The faceless men
   The machines of the city
  
   6 p.m. whistle
   Next the inner city
   Smiling grimey faces
   Tea at the local pub
   Low-cut dresses
   High-spirited workers
   Sizzling neon-lights, click on
   This is the city, city of light
  
   Flicker
   Click on
   Click off
   Click on
   The faceless men
   The machines of the city
  
   2 a.m. binge
   Low-life slagheap
   Used up and burnt out
   Like a kick in the teeth
   Ramble, shamble on home
   Grime back in harness
   Metal rhythm left and right
   This is the city, city of light
  
   Flicker
   Click on
   Click off
   Click on
   The faceless men
   The machines of the city