These little town blues
Are melting away
I’ll make a brand new start of it
In old New York
If I can make it there
I’ll make it anywhere
It’s up to you
New York, New York
We’ll have Manhattan,
The Bronx and Staten
Island too.
It’s lovely going through the Zoo.
It’s very fancy
On old Delancey
Street you know.
The subway charms us so,
When balmy breezes blow
To and fro.
But, I’m not in some desert town
And you’re not there with me
I’m underground in NYC
The city of perpetual motion
The city that never sleeps
That’s alright
I wasn’t tired anyways…
Feel the spirit rise
Illuminate as one
Look into my eyes (Eyes)
Just to let it come (Just to let it come)
Burn
Burn
You will burn
Too late (Too late)
To know (To know)
Now I’m there
Prophecy
What I see
You’re not there
But it’s too late to say you’re sorry
How would I know, why should I care?
Please don’t bother trying to find her
She’s not there
Well, let me tell you about the way she looked
The way she acts and the color of her hair
Her voice was soft and cool, her eyes were clear and bright
But she’s not there
Laura is the face in the misty light
Footsteps that you hear down the hall
The laugh that floats on a summer night
That you can never quite recall
I’ve met so many women
With fascinating ways
A fascinating gaze in their eyes
Some who sent me up to the skies
But their attempts at love
Were only imitations of
My old flame
I can’t even think of her name
But I’ll never be the same
Until I discover what became
Of my old flame
She would always treat me mean
So I poured a can of gasoline
And struck a match to
My old flame…
Always loving you,
But, never touching you
Sometimes hurts me,
Almost more than I can stand
Always wanting you…
You always hurt the one you love
The one you shouldn’t hurt at all
You always take the sweetest rose
And crush it till the petals fall
You always break the kindest heart
With a hasty word you can’t recall, so
If I broke your heart last night
It’s because I love you most of all
Well there’s a rose in the fisted glove,
And the eagle flies with the dove,
And if you can’t be with the one you love, honey,
Love the one you’re with.
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed, that with the sun’s love
In the spring becomes the rose
They say that things just cannot grow
Beneath the winter snow,
Or so I have been told.
They say were buried far,
Just like a distant star
I simply cannot hold.
Is love alive?
Is love alive?
Is love alive?
Somehow we drifted off too far
Communicate like distant stars
Splintered voices down the phone
The sunlit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no
Summer waits behind the door
Hiroshima mon amour
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’s told us not to blow it
Cause he knows it’s all worthwhile
He told me:
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
Star Trekkin’ across the universe
On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk
Star Trekkin’ across the universe
Boldly going forward 'cause we can’t find reverse
Ninety-nine knights of the air,
Ride super high-tech jet fighters.
Everyone’s a super hero,
Everyone’s a Captain Kirk.
With orders to identify,
To clarify and classify,
Scramble in the summer sky,
Ninety-nine red balloons go by.
We’re Knights of the Round Table,
We dance when ere we’re able,
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot,
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
He was not in the least bit scared
To be mashed into a pulp.
Or to have his eyes gouged out,
And his elbows broken.
To have his kneecaps split
And his body burned away,
And his limbs all hacked and mangled
Brave Sir Robin.
Scary monsters, super creeps
Keep me running, running scared
Scary monsters, super creeps
Keep me running, running scared
She asked me to stay and I stole her room
She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind
Now she’s stupid in the street and she can’t socialise
Well I love the little girl and I’ll love her till the day she dies