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New York≈Hoboken
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New York - Hoboken
NYC is killing me
She’s so beautiful
She won’t let me sleep
I can’t take my eyes away
NYC is killing me
NYC is killing me
She’s so huge and sexy
She’s shaking all the time and
All I got to do is climb on
NYC is killing me
NYC is killing me
I’m a diamond lost in her gutter
Your dancers down on their knees
NYC you’re killing me
NYC is killing me
But New York I’m not alone
Your victims lie everywhere
New York you’re everywhere
Some build their protection
Out of walls of gold
Some build it out of
Silk and pearls
I got no walls
But I don’t care
I build my protection
Out of thin air
New York come on
You’re all
Too much
Too soon
New York, New York
You’re all
Too little
Too late
Scared streets swim in front of me
Fifty cops waiting to bust me
Fifty women waiting to trust me
A million stars wheel above me
Crazy train, where the hell am I?
I can't find a paper or an exit sign
Guess I better call that friend of mine
Maybe he found my lost piece of mind
O, Hoboken I want to kiss you
Ruby night let me love you
Jealous city put your legs up high
And welcome me into your scarlet night
Waiting
Like I was Lao Tzu
Waiting
Like I’m some sort of patient-ass Buddha
Which I’m not
I am television
Transmissions from
Cape Kennedy
Kennedy is President
Rockefeller is governor
I am three-minute songs
Broadcast from New York
Brucie is my cousin
Floyd is my uncle
Dancing
Like the melody don't matter
Dancing
Like the words don't matter
Peasants throbbing
I won't be beat
I don't own mirrors
or telephones
Amish bohemia
I don't rhyme dream with seem
or sing about my tough luck
Headaches
Our common boundaries
Headaches
Our shared death
Bombs exploding
I won't think about
The next day
Anarchists have enough trouble
With the next second
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Lach Edinburgh, UK
Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach
Chronicles.
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