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
A tenner, 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 and folk are nice to Yoko
Every bone of rivet steel,
each corner stone an ankle
Jenga jutts and rusted water tower,
pillar-posted sign
Every painted line and battered,
laddered building in this town
Sings a life of proud endeavor
at the best that man can be
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

Oh my god, New York can talk

Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the great ideas

And it feels like there's a big one round the corner

Oh my god, New York can talk
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers

Everybody owns the great ideas

And it feels like there's a big one round the corner

Oh my god, New York can talk
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
The design in a patchwork symphony
The desire like a distant storm
For love, did it come for me
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
The design in a patchwork symphony

The desire like a distant storm
For love, did it come for me
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner

The way the day begins

Decides the shade of everything
But the way it ends depends on if you're home

For every soul, a pillow at a window, please
In a modern Rome, where folk are nice to Yoko