Cathy's hailing a cab like hailing a storm Unto the streets of new city Once we're inside, a carnival ride That brings a white knuckle kind of
She me up on her rooftop, Framed by a of watertanks and chimneys wrapped round a cigarette, Lecturing etiquette, while I in the windows me
We took in and it was medicine And nighttime came the skyline just swallowed The Cathy lays the blame on alva edison And 60 million lightbulbs telling new that It's Ah, strikes too soon Midnight strikes too
She says, "in new york city, throw their into wells 'cause you see a star, unless one hit you when It -- " "and if you caught one," I say, "who Could you tell in this whole town who'd Believe "
She smiled like a cat would to a pigeon on the She says, "i look into for universal truths" And we drank in the moment like whiskey "but if fell," she said, "i'd tell you"
The view from her could make your head spin It was like holding up the world in a And we it down,m every light in town Like the sweetest, medicine I my wish on a satellite dish But still midnight strikes too Midnight strikes too
never seems to slow down She's a hurricane working a skyscraper She laughs at me, says I'm suburban But the truth is I live on a
I come to this for the solace of her roof window tells a story in cold hard truth As the world spins beneath me, I ask it for That I'm my life in my own way Or time just have it's own say
Midnight strikes too Midnight strikes too strikes too soon Midnight too soon