I think it's like "Bright Lights" part 2 ... at first he's rather sarcastic about her expectations about going to the big-time. Then the second verse is about the hard cold way of the city that the girl just doesn't know. He's telling her what's going to happen to her after that city gets to her. The city wants her to just blend in to the scenery basically. Then there's the speaker telling her to come back to him and he'll bring her back from it all. The big city has a lot of promises and most of them it can't really keep.
I think it's like "Bright Lights" part 2 ... at first he's rather sarcastic about her expectations about going to the big-time. Then the second verse is about the hard cold way of the city that the girl just doesn't know. He's telling her what's going to happen to her after that city gets to her. The city wants her to just blend in to the scenery basically. Then there's the speaker telling her to come back to him and he'll bring her back from it all. The big city has a lot of promises and most of them it can't really keep.