“New Rock City“ by Luc – A Song Review

    Very little surfaces during a search for information about Luc (pronounced “Luke”). They don’t show their full faces in their Facebook photos section. And we don’t grasp the message of their single “New Rock City.” So, we aren’t much help to others who are fans of the song.

     What we can tell others is that we played “New Rock City” at least 25 times yesterday, and that number will be surpassed today. And we note that the determination in the voice and the questioning in the lyrics invite reflection, but not necessarily about the lyrics themselves. The song fits well within a playlist for times when decisions must be made. There is a quiet resolve at its start and end, while the center has a percussive thunder.   

     “New Rock City“ by Luc 

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Lyrics of “New Rock City" by Luc

Let’s take the proverbial subway to the end of the line

And continue on foot to leave the city by the wayside

Let’s turn this proverbial party into the real kind

And continue to play, until the coming of the sunlight

Cause those kids can rock, but they can’t dance for shit

Those kids can talk, but they never just do it

Yeah, those girls were fly and the boys just as fit

But what’s the point of beauty, if you never just lose it?

Let’s meet unpredictable people in the dead of the night

And be careless enough to offer homage to the wrong kind

We’ll be an untouchable city and an unstoppable fight

And we’ll grow to forget from where we rode here on the city line

Cause those kids can rock, but they can’t dance for shit

Those kids can talk, but they never just do it

Yeah, those girls were fly and the boys just as fit

But what’s the point of beauty, if you never just lose it?

Let’s turn this interminable rhythm into common time

And be careless enough to throw our worries by the wayside

This will be the dance of a nation, and the chant of a tribe

And we’ll know to be wrong for as long as it feels right

Cause those kids can rock, but they can’t dance for shit

Those kids will never ever ever ever ever do it

Those girls were fine and the boys just as fit

But what’s the point of beauty, if you never just lose it?