day is night...its dar during the day couse of the smog smoke like water runs inside the smoke is again smog smoke thick ...steel idle trees he in new york in the 70s and its not pleasent so he is gonna hitch a ride ......until today i had no idea that the 1st verse said day is night ..i thought it was "last night in new york citysmoke like water runs inside ,steal out of the tree to pitty everly living thing has died...always wondered what he meant and ive heard this song a billion times and am still not tired of it im trying to learn the leads ri9ght now