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| in new | york freedom | looks like | too many choices |
| A | G | Cadd9 | |
| in new | york i found a | friend |
| G | |
| to drown | out the other voices |
| A | G | |
| voices on the cell phone | voices from home |
| Cadd9 | |
| voices through the hard sell |
| G | A | |
| voices down a stairwell in | new york |
| G | Cadd9 | G | A | |
| just got a place in new | york |
| In New York summers get hot |
| Well into the hundreds |
| You can't walk around the block |
| Without a change of clothing |
| Hot as a hair dryer in your face |
| Hot as a handbag and a can of mace |
| In New York, I just got a place in New York |
| New York, New York |
| In New York you can forget |
| Forget how to sit still |
| Tell yourself you will stay in |
| But it's down to Alphaville |
| New York, New York, New York |
| New York, New York, New York |
| The Irish have been coming here for years |
| Feel like they own the place |
| They got the airport, city hall, concrete |
| Asphalt, they even got the police |
| Irish, Italians, Jews and Hispanics |
| Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew, |
| Living happily not like me and you |
| That's where I lost you... New York |
| New York, New York |
| New York, New York |
| In New York I lost it all to you and your vices |
| Still I'm staying on to figure out my mid life crisis |
| I hit an iceberg in my life |
| But you know I'm still afloat |
| You lose your balance, lose your wife |
| In the queue for the lifeboat |
| You got to put the women and children first |
| But you've got an unquenchable thirst for New York |
| New York, New York |
| New York, New York |
| n the stillness of the evening |
| When the sun has had its day |
| I heard your voice a-whispering |
| Come away child |
| New York, New York |