Wonder, Stevie - Living For The City Lyrics

Christ.... New York is a tough place.
He's only been in it for 30 seconds and his arse is jail.
ps
Anyone else sick of these 'who's listening to this'...posts everywhere on here ?
This sorta thing is timeless.
Oh and it's A Song....A Proper One...they never go out of style.

This is one of the top 100 songs in human history........###genius

When I hear this song, I immediately think of Jungle Fever; when Wesley Snipes went to go find the color television that Samuel L. Jackson stole from his mother's house. So now, I think about the crackhouse when I hear this song. Nonetheless, it's a masterpiece.

If we dont change the world will soon be over.

Although it’s an amazing song u lot saying like oh he could see all the inequalities in the world even though he’s blind u lot need to remember he wasn’t always blind and he was living in America so he has seen it

my brother in the fight. I learned how to play "in the dark" i broke my back. I can't. I fought thru so many injuries and screamed FU--THEN I BROKE MY BACK. My body is DARK. YOU'RE BLIND, BUT U ARE LIVING IN THE LIGHT OF DARKNESS. I GUESS I NEED TO FIND MY THING W/O A PHYSIQUE. PEACE. THANKS FOR THE JOY. I LOVE 🎶!

43 years later and nothing has changed.

Reminds me of Jungle Fever when Snipes goes looking for junkie Samuel Jackson!

Praise Me Lord🤗

This guy should be the next u s president.

Stevie was in the midst of one of the greatest runs of albums in music history

one of the most influential and greatest songwriters of all time, without question

Love it Thanks !

Boss chune! Still!!

Wonderful Stevie he is

We are struggling in the unfair and injustice capitalist greedy city.

You look hip man,wanna make $5 man

Nyc 1973

The 8th Wonder of the World...in fact, Stevie, you are more than a Wonder—you are a LEGEND.

2020 oh yeah

This song is a story about the destructive effects of leftisim on the citizens of all people in urban areas. Time to change that and give people a hand up and not a hand out!

Please stop using Stevie Wonder for your own agenda, he's not a Trump supporter nor Republican 😂

The United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth. The land of the FREE!

questa è musica.

This is a timeless classic

And who of us thought Pink Floyd had the only perfect album of 1973 ?????

It takes a blind man to show the rest of us the way !

he gave you every tone and emotion in this... I'm just noticing in 2020

Lord, this song messed me up when I was young!! The poor guy just arrived in NYC, and was immediately used and locked up! So many have had their lives unfairly taken through the prison system!!!

I'm convinced this man was born to be a musical genius.

i may be late but is this the song they use for law and order opening credits?

❤❤❤

The House Of Motown

higher being!

Am I the only one who sees the musical similarities between this song (especially 5:17 onwards) and CCR's Fortunate Son?

Happy Martin Luther King Day & soon to come February 2020 Black History Month!! ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

My favorite metaldrummer Gene Hoglan brought me here as hè mentions Stevie's as his favorite drummer. In fact Stevies drumming is well appreciated in the extreme metal scene.

her clothes are old, but never are they dirty.

that pan is amazing! ahhh..

That's mama's record right there! I can remember when I was 4 years old, In 1973 of November at that time, when a red 1964 Dodge van was selling 45 rpm records, & a speaker was on top of the van, playing Stevie Wonder's "Living For The City" version of It, & she bought It on the 45 rpm. She plays It & plays It almost everyday, on a Solid State compatible stereo record player+ 8 track player. I can never forget this memory of this record here! The best part that I love of what Stevie's words are saying Is "His parents give, him love & affection.To keep him strong, moving In the right direction.Living just enough, just enough, for the city." Yes! Stevie can put a lot of expression and feeling through every scene & song! He's telling this song as It always Is &, always will be done.I know my mama pick this record than any records there Is. Hands down to Stevie's greatest song! And hands down to my mother's picking this 45 rpm record! Best times! Enough said!💿🎧🎼🎹🎤🎵🎶🎆🌟💥🔥😂🙏🌎🔝🆙👍💯😎👀👋💨

I can change the last verse to involve Philadelphia.

Golden Lady runs off the ending.

still relevant today... so sad... love Stevie

Synthesizer's were mesmerizing in 1970's !!!!

Grew up with you

JUST ENOUGH 😊AND I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THE COUNTRY. SUCH AN AWESOME WORLD. I'M NOT ASHAMED OF WHERE I'VE COME FROM: ALLENFARM, TEXAS. HARRY MOORE FARM 🙈🙉🙊

Never give out where you are peace of advise regards DJ smidnightcaller YouTube

PROBABLY HIS BEST ALBUM

Now that's music.

Musical prophet of God

God's prodigy

The lick in this song flies in from outer space and breaks the whole thing down

I brought this 45 in 1973 I was 13 years old this is my favorite Stevie Wonder song of all time and still is in the year 2020

This is such a powerful song !

who's here in 2020 listening to this genius?

Listening. I'm upset that this song is still relevant decades later. It both gives me hope and pisses me off. True genius.

Yo dude I'm listening to this in 3130!

I remember when this e
was FM late night

Stevie Wonder was immensely talented! Innervisions was a MONSTER hit for him! If you don't own this album or CD you are missing out PEOPLE! This is music as REAL as it gets!

yep Lil Stevie saw the world as it is. TELL THEM STEVIE rocking with stevie dec2019 who with me

We have eyes but we can’t see. A blind man can see lord,so what can’t we? He see mentally.....the third eye.

Oh my goodness my dad tought this song to me when I was 6 now I’m only 12 but beginning to truest understand this song and how we somehow are still allowing this song to relate to 2019 and 1day until 2020.

This shows. No cap we have to change something.

I was born in tupelo Mississippi

Best tune he ever done

Lost treasures to this generation but not to me

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Stevie is the funkmaster go on my son.

Your brother is at the Taj Mahal 😂😂😂

EAT MMEEE !!!

Old box head ass Nigga .

What you think we did with the TV ? We smoked the muthafuckin TV .

Strange looking back. I don't know why, but I was invited to Setvie's new years party in 73. I'm Canadian and got lost trying to find Maxwell's Kansas City where a large group of us were meeting up . Arriving late and being a nobody, I couldn't really ask, " Hey has anyone got Stevie's address? " So we headed back to Ossining, where we were staying with an old guy Freddie Sesler.
There were no taxis at the train station, so we called a cab and were told there was a race riot going on and we were on the wrong side of the front lines, to barricade ourselves in the washroom at the train station until help arrived.


It did and crossing the lines I saw so much hate as we drove through demonstrators throwing bricks and fire bombs. The driver must have hit and run over many as she plowed through the crowd. New York. I still look back and wonder. How and why he invited me to his new years party. Still love the song. I left out a lot of the story, cuz it's the night before Christmas now. 2019. Canadians didn't know about that kind of hate at the time.

Tears from the slums Cleveland Ohio

I applaud you Cynthia!! Your comments are well stated!

the more things change the more they stay the same.2019......... back to this crap.

There ought to be a law against having as much talent as Stevie. I would love to have the talent in one of his fingers...I'd be a sensation. Been following him for 50 years...

I've loved this song ever since it was a brand new song and I was a little girl.

Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" 1991 movie brought me to this song.

I got one better: the genius of Stevie Wonder brought me to this song! ;)

Impeach Trump and put my ass in his place...Thanks and God bless America!

He got that third eye: eye of the sprit.....wisdom and knowledge.

This song is the American black family struggle personified ✊🏾✊🏾

He's been thru it all went thru it all and better believe seen it all and blind 60fkn yrs later I jus Wonder if he could've ran for Pres huh makes one Wonder

Frank Sinatra singing Ebony and Ivory with Stevie Wonder "(Stevie) - You are black and I am white, (Frank Sinatra) - you are blind as a bat and I have sight".  I laughed until I cried when I first saw that on SNL.  No disrespect of course.  Joe Piscapo and Eddie Murphy nailed it though.

hey fuck Halloween!

I'm 29 I thank my mother for introducing our house hold to stevie n all the old jams #musicwithmeaning

this was a GREAT year for music...and Stevie was at the top...Then "Song with the Key of Life"...wow

This might be the most underrated song ever

Be smart or you'll get your ass kicked out there.

🤗😚🤗

Stevie Wonder fans go to heaven

My all time favourite Stevie Wonder record.

Is it because i've been around a while and saw him rise that I say he is not blind, he just doesn't see with his eyes, such a gift to us all!

Steve Wonder, the genius of music!

This, "Superstition" and "Higher Ground" comprise the perfect Urban Doxology.

Even more relevant today so sad

A masterpiece👍💗

#1 Classic R&B. God bless you and your families. 11-23-2029

"If WE don't change, the world will soon be over"

You are listening right now to a genius & a master in his trade. Take it away Stevie.

Some things never change.

"To find a job it's like a haystack needle/// cause where he lives they use colored people!! "

they DON'T use colored people

Loved this album played it to death

Mr Wonder's lnnervisions are miles better than our Outervisions. God blessed him with a wonderful special spirit/gift.