hot summer streets and the pavements are burning i sit around trying to smile but the air is so heavy and dry strange voices are saying things i can´t understand it´s too close for comfort this heat has got right out of hand
(chorus) it´s a cruel, cruel summer leaving me here on my own it´s a cruel, cruel summer now you´re gone
the city is crowded my friends are away and i´m on my own it´s too hot to handle so i got to get up and go