[ti:New York] [ar:U2] [al:All That You Can't Leave Behind] [offset:500] [00:48.81]In New York freedom looks like too many choices [00:56.33]In New York I found a friend to drown out the other voices [01:02.95]Voices on a cell phone [01:04.87]Voices from home [01:06.83]Voices of the hard sell [01:08.75]Voices down the stairwell [01:10.39]In New York [01:13.14]Just got a place in New York [01:19.04]In new York summers get hot [01:23.54]Well into the hundreds [01:27.10]You cant walk around the block without a change of clothing [01:33.50]Hot as a hairdryer in your face [01:37.31]Hot as a handbag and a can of mace [01:41.14]In New York [01:43.20]I just got a place in New York ,New York ,New York [01:57.19]In New York you can forget [02:01.74]forget how to sit still [02:04.96]Tell yourself you will stay in [02:08.83]But its down to Alphaville [02:15.42]New York ,New York.... [02:43.89]The Irish have been coming here for years [02:47.88]Feel like they own the place [02:51.28]They got the airport ,city hall ,concrete ,asphalt [02:55.78]They even got the police [02:57.81]Irish ,Italian ,Jews and Hispanics [03:01.54]Religious nuts ,political fanatics in the stew [03:06.85]Living happily not like me and you [03:11.32]Thats where lost you...New York [03:53.01]In New York I lost it all to you and your vices [04:00.19]Still I am staying on to figure out my mid life crisis [04:07.74]I hit an iceberg in my life [04:11.71]But you know I am still afloat [04:15.55]You lose your balance ,lose you wife [04:19.80]In the queue for the lifeboat [04:22.16]You got to put the women and children first [04:26.02]But youve got an unquenchable thirst for New York [04:44.89]In the stillness of every evening [04:48.64]When the sun has had its day [04:52.48]I heard your voice a whispering come away child [05:00.51]New York , New York........ [05:17.80]Redacted by Jerry