Midnight Strikes Too Soon Lyrics - Ellis Paul

Cathy's hailing a cab like she's hailing a storm 

Unto the streets of new york city 

Once we're inside, it's a carnival ride 

That brings a white knuckle kind of dizzy 

She takes me up on her rooftop, 

Framed by a backdrop of watertanks and chimneys 

She's wrapped round a cigarette, 

Lecturing etiquette, while I look in the windows 

Beneath me 

We took in saturday and it was medicine 

And when nighttime came the skyline just swallowed 

The moon 

Cathy lays the blame on thomas alva edison 

And 60 million lightbulbs telling new york that 

It's noon 

Ah, midnight strikes too soon 

Midnight strikes too soon 

She says, "in new york city, they throw their 

Wishes into wells 

'cause you can't see a star, unless one hit you when 

It fell -- " 

"and if even you caught one," I say, "who 

Could you tell in this whole damn town who'd 

Believe you? " 

She smiled like a cat would to a pigeon on the roof 

She says, "i look into windows for universal truths" 

And we drank in the moment like whiskey hundred 

Proof 

"but if orion fell," she said, "i'd tell you" 

The view from her roof could make your head 

Just spin 

It was like holding up the world in a tablespoon 

And we drank it down,m every light in town 

Like the sweetest, kindest medicine 

I made my wish on a satellite dish 

But still midnight strikes too soon 

Midnight strikes too soon 

Cathy never seems to slow down 

She's a hurricane working a skyscraper town 

She laughs at me, says I'm suburban bound 

But the truth is I live on a highway 

I come to this city for the solace of her roof 

Every window tells a story in cold hard truth 

As the world spins beneath me, I ask it for proof 

That I'm living my life in my own way 

Or will time just have it's own say 

Midnight strikes too soon 

Midnight strikes too soon 

Midnight strikes too soon 

Midnight strikes too soon