Cathy's hailing a cab like hailing a storm Unto the of new york city Once we're inside, a carnival ride That brings a white knuckle kind of
She me up on her rooftop, Framed by a backdrop of and chimneys She's round a cigarette, Lecturing etiquette, while I look in the me
We took in and it was medicine And nighttime came the skyline just swallowed The Cathy lays the on thomas alva edison And 60 million lightbulbs telling new york It's Ah, midnight strikes too Midnight too soon
She says, "in new city, they throw their Wishes wells 'cause you can't see a star, unless one hit you It -- " "and if even you one," I say, "who Could you in this whole damn 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 roof could make head spin It was like up the world in a tablespoon And we drank it down,m every in town Like the sweetest, medicine I made my wish on a satellite But still midnight strikes too Midnight strikes too
Cathy never seems to slow a hurricane working a skyscraper town She laughs at me, I'm suburban bound But the truth is I live on a
I come to city for the solace of her roof Every window a story in cold hard truth As the world beneath me, I ask it for proof That I'm living my in my own way Or will just have it's own say
Midnight too soon strikes too soon Midnight strikes too Midnight strikes too