Cathy's hailing a cab like she's hailing a Unto the of new york city Once we're inside, a carnival ride That brings a white knuckle of dizzy
She me up on her rooftop, by a backdrop of watertanks and chimneys She's round a cigarette, Lecturing etiquette, while I in the windows me
We took in and it was medicine And when nighttime came the skyline just The Cathy the blame on thomas alva edison And 60 million lightbulbs telling new york noon Ah, midnight strikes too Midnight strikes too
She says, "in new york city, they their Wishes into you can't see a star, unless one hit you when It -- " "and if you caught one," I say, "who you tell in this 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 drank in the moment like whiskey "but if orion fell," she said, "i'd you"
The view from her roof could your head spin 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 dish But still strikes too soon Midnight too soon
Cathy seems to slow down She's a hurricane working a skyscraper She at me, says I'm suburban bound But the truth is I on a highway
I come to this city for the solace of her Every window a story in cold hard truth As the spins beneath me, I ask it for proof That I'm my life in my own way Or will time just have own say
Midnight strikes too Midnight strikes too strikes too soon Midnight too soon