[Intro]: Ladies and gentlemen…we are inviting you…to something special, ya know? The big city with the bright lights…where everybody knows everybody, ha-ha!

[Hook]: Skies are getting darker, and the sun has faded, I see the lights in here and I know that I have made it.
You know just where you are when you see the Minne-ap, you know you feeling good, this is where your heart’s at.
Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights. Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights.
Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights. Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights.

[Verse One]: Welcome to Minneapolis, 10,000 lakes, you feeling good? I’m feelin great!
The lakes are blue, the flag is too, so call us up with the 612.
What you gonna do in Minneap? Chill downtown with your backwards hat?
Or chill Southside with the homies all day? Got a lot to do, go find your way.
Go to the lake called No-Ko-Mis, take a walk and feel the bliss.
Calhoun got that place Uptown, turns that frown right upside down.
Harriet got that silent voice, once you see, you will rejoice.
10,000 lakes chillin’ here, the Minneapolis Atmosphere.

[Hook]: Skies are getting darker, and the sun has faded, I see the lights in here and I know that I have made it.
You know just where you are when you see the Minne-ap, you know you feeling good, this is where your heart’s at.
Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights. Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights.
Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights. Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights.

[Verse Two]: Education is the key, U of M to MCTC.
Get schooled on school and your knowledge, higher learning, we love college.
We love chilling, we go downtown, see the arts, go above the ground.
Theaters for the plays, Orpheum and the Guthrie way.
A broadway mus-i-cal, for the soul, your inner child.
Walker Art for the art you love, paint the picture like a dove.
Pictures with the words you think, let em sink or draw with ink.
Arts of the place got you chillin’, Minneapolis, what a feelin’.

[Hook]: Skies are getting darker, and the sun has faded, I see the lights in here and I know that I have made it.
You know just where you are when you see the Minne-ap, you know you feeling good, this is where your heart’s at.
Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights. Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights.
Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights. Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights.

[Bridge (MonoPoleJoe)]: Put your hands up for the city…
Wave em side to side…
Clap your hands for the city…
And do it real loud!

[Verse Three]: The city here is like a jungle, staying humble on the hustle.
All the time it makes me wonder, how can we keep from going under?
Under-over, bottom to the top, cream of the crop, never ever stop.
Hopes and dreams in the big time city, getting down to the nitty-gritty.
If I can make it here, I can make it there, I can make it just about anywhere.
A wish and a dream, living on a prayer, singing in the rain like Fred Astaire.
Singing, dancing, like we Diddy, romancing like we Biggie.
Glorious, happy again, thank the lord and say “Amen”

[Hook]: Skies are getting darker, and the sun has faded, I see the lights in here and I know that I have made it.
You know just where you are when you see the Minne-ap, you know you feeling good, this is where your heart’s at.
Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights. Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights.
Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights. Big city, bright lights, big city, bright lights.