In The City

No comment on this one? Jeez...

The neon sky is refering to the glow of the street lights in the city. This song is one of the most beautiful ones I've ever heard in my life. It's about how the city isn't as pretty as it looks and how you miss the simple things in nature once you get caught up in it. It's pretty self explainitory if you read the lyrics.

The song was written by Joe Walsh and Barry DeVorzon. Walsh's version appears in "The Warriors". The Eagles later re-recorded it and included in "The Long Run" album. You can tell the difference in the 2 versions. The version in the movie has female backing vocals, whereas The Eagles version has the band members doing the backing vocals. Either version is great nonetheless.

yeah the song really self explanatory... one of their best too in my humble opinion... i wonder why there are so few comments ( just 1 before mine to be precise) i used the lyrics in my SAT 2 writing essay :) Theyre so cool! i love you don henley...

this fucking song just rocks. I dont know about you all but i really appreciate songs that rock and dont have to have words such as "bling-bling" or "nigger" or "im gonna fucking kill you" like all the fucking rap shit we have to put up with nowadays. This song is a prime example of ACTUAL music

this song was indeed written by joe walsh and it was originally a joe walsh solo song written and performed for a movie released in the late 1970's called "The Warriors". the movie is about gang life in New York City in the 70's and focuses mainly on a gang from Coney Island. the "neon lights" refer to the bright lights from all the carnival games and rides, most notably the Wonder Wheel ferris wheel and the Cyclone roller coaster that are Coney Island landmarks. i suggest you watch the movie to really understand what the song's talking about... once you see it you can clearly understand what joe's talking about. plus, it's a bad ass movie... one of my favorites.

haha yeah the Warriors rules...i only knew this as another eagles song for years, and then when i finally saw The Warriors a few months ago, i was like "hey! the eagles! that makes this movie even better!" hahaha

Another piece of gold from the Eagles.

This song is amazing. I loved when they played it on the movie The Warriors [ending]

Joe Walsh was born in Wichita, and in order lived in Columbus, NYC, Montclair NJ - he went to Kent St Univ and his rock and roll roots are in Cleveland - his interp of life In The City for the street gang The Warriors is genius if he didn't see that side of life, becuz it's how he imagines it - please remember that the author of Civil War masterpiece Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, wrote about Civil War battles in great accuracy and never saw one

Rap is kids music. But you know what they say, that what is kid's music today is the old music of 2 generations later. You know what they said about rock and roll when it first came out. I think it's sad that hip-hop will become the pop music of tomorrow (it already is getting that way), since most of it lacks real melody, harmony and musical arrangements. Even rock has those elements of good music. My opinion is, rap is the music made and listened to by people who think it's uncool for boys to sing. Which is completely not true, but that sure is the standard in most public elementary schools unfortunately. I was surprised when I had switched from a private elementary school to a public one when I moved beginning in fourth grade, and one of the biggest differences I noticed was that classes mocked the music teacher, especially the boys, and wouldn't sing unless compelled to. Such a shame, I hope maybe the popularity of American Idol has changed that. But I digress.

What I want to know is why Joe Walsh, who I presume is the songwriter, wanted to write a song about how tough the city is. I don't know squat about his background, but I have the inkling that even if he grew up in the city it wasn't a "tough neighborhood."