Cathy's hailing a cab like she's hailing a Unto the streets of new city we're inside, it's a carnival ride That a white knuckle kind of dizzy
She me up on her rooftop, by a backdrop of watertanks and chimneys She's wrapped a cigarette, etiquette, while I look in the windows me
We took in and it was medicine And when nighttime came the just swallowed The Cathy lays the blame on thomas edison And 60 million lightbulbs new york that noon Ah, midnight too soon Midnight strikes too
She says, "in new york city, they throw into wells 'cause you can't see a star, unless one hit you It -- " "and if even you one," I say, "who Could you tell in whole damn town who'd Believe "
She smiled like a cat would to a pigeon on the She says, "i look windows for universal truths" And we in the moment like whiskey hundred "but if orion fell," she said, "i'd you"
The view from her could make your head Just It was like holding up the in a tablespoon And we drank it down,m every in town Like the sweetest, kindest I made my wish on a satellite But still strikes too soon strikes too soon
Cathy never seems to slow She's a hurricane a skyscraper town She laughs at me, says I'm suburban But the is I live on a highway
I to this city for the solace of her roof Every window tells a story in cold truth As the world beneath me, I ask it for proof That I'm my life in my own way Or will time have it's own say
strikes too soon Midnight strikes too Midnight strikes too Midnight too soon