New York Lyrics - All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2

In New York freedom looks like too many choices 

In New York I found a friend to drown out the other voices 

Voices on the cell phone 

Voices from home 

Voices of the hard sell 

Voices down the stairwell 

In New York, just got a place in New York 

In New York summers get hot, well into the hundreds 

You can't walk around the block without a change of clothing 

Hot as a hairdryer in your face 

Hot as a handbag and a can of mace 

In New York, I just got a place in New York 

New York, New York 

In New York you can forget, forget how to sit still 

Tell yourself you will stay in 

But it's down to Alphaville 

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New York, New York, New York 

New York, New York, New York 

The Irish have been coming here for years 

Feel like they own the place 

They got the airport, city hall, concrete, asphalt, they even got the police 

Irish, Italian, Jews and Hispanics 

Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew, 

Living happily not like me and you 

That's where I lost you... NewYork 

New York, New York 

New York, New York 

In New York I lost it all to you and your vices 

Still I'm staying on to figure out my mid life crisis 

I hit an iceberg in my life 

But you know I'm still afloat 

You lose your balance, lose your wife 

In the queue for the lifeboat 

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You got to put the women and children first 

But you've got an unquenchable thirst for New York 

New York, New York 

New York, New York 

In the stillness of the evening 

When the sun has had its day 

I heard your voice a-whispering 

Come away child 

New York, New York