Intro: verse 1: The first to put a simple truth in words Binds the world in a feeling all familiar 'Cause everybody owns the great ideas And it feels like there's a big one round the corner Antenna up and out into New York Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers And oh, my giddy aunt, New York can talk It's the modern Rome where folk are nice to Yoko verse 2: Every bone of rivet steel Each corner stone and angle Jenga jut and rusted water tower Pillar post and sign Every painted line and battered ladder building in this town Sings a life of proud endeavour and the best that man can be verse 3: Me I see a city and I hear a million voices Planning, drilling, welding, carrying their fingers to the nub Reaching down into the ground Stretching up into the sky Why? Because they can They did and do So you and I could live together Chorus:
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