[ti:New York City Girl] [ar:John Waite] [al:Hard Way] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]New York City Girl - John Waite [00:08.42]Written by:Raymond Kennedy/Glenn Burtnick [00:16.85]There's diamonds in the avenue [00:20.04] [00:21.02]As the dayshift turns to night [00:23.57] [00:25.38]In the Empire dinner dreaming [00:28.33] [00:29.01]Hard rain fluorescent lights [00:32.19] [00:34.06]As the waitress fills my coffee cup [00:37.13] [00:38.08]And the working girls go by [00:41.23] [00:42.31]Drenched Irish Cops are dreaming sex [00:45.85] [00:46.41]And peep show alibis [00:48.89] [00:50.33]Everything underneath the skyline [00:54.76]From the east side to the west [00:57.89] [00:58.80]I see the miracles in real time [01:02.64] [01:03.34]And there's one I've loved the best [01:06.10] [01:07.00]See there's an angel on the D train [01:11.07] [01:11.68]As she's flying to my world [01:15.02] [01:16.01]And I'm waiting for a New York City Girl [01:21.14] [01:25.34]Times Square looks like Avalon [01:27.95] [01:28.89]In a Disney morphine dream [01:31.98] [01:32.85]Dylan Thomas rides a white horse drunk [01:36.96] [01:37.52]At the counter next to me [01:40.35] [01:42.16]I wake up in the bed sometimes [01:45.50] [01:46.05]And watch her as she sleeps [01:48.84] [01:49.54]In the silence and the sirens [01:53.50] [01:54.30]I pray her soul to keep [01:57.11] [01:58.35]Everything underneath the skyline [02:02.09] [02:02.82]From the east side to the west [02:05.67] [02:06.43]I see the miracles in real time [02:10.46] [02:11.21]And there's one I've loved the best [02:14.04] [02:15.09]See there's an angel on the D train [02:19.15] [02:19.77]As she's flying to my world [02:22.99] [02:24.00]And I'm waiting for a New York City Girl [02:29.08] [02:50.19]The catherine wheel burns bright tonight [02:52.97] [02:54.57]Down on the avenue [02:56.93] [02:58.15]But nowhere near as bright my love [03:01.46] [03:02.06]As the fire that burns for you [03:05.45] [03:08.47]Everything underneath the skyline [03:12.23] [03:12.85]From the east side to the west [03:15.89] [03:16.63]Of the lives I've lived and those I've known [03:20.92] [03:21.43]There is one I've loved the best [03:24.81]See there's an angel on the D train [03:29.10] [03:29.67]As she's flying to my world [03:33.12] [03:34.11]And I'm waiting for a New York City Girl [03:39.55] [03:42.11]And I'm waiting for a New York City Girl [03:48.16] [04:02.50]New York City Girl [04:05.53] [04:28.08]New York City Girl [04:30.62] [04:36.61]New York City Girl