Cathy's hailing a cab like she's hailing a the streets of new york city Once inside, it's a carnival ride That brings a knuckle kind of dizzy
She me up on her rooftop, by a backdrop of watertanks and chimneys She's wrapped a cigarette, Lecturing etiquette, while I in the windows me
We took in and it was medicine And when nighttime the skyline just swallowed The lays the blame on thomas alva edison And 60 million lightbulbs telling new york noon Ah, midnight strikes too Midnight too soon
She says, "in new york city, they their into wells 'cause you can't see a star, one hit you when It -- " "and if you caught one," I say, "who you tell in this whole damn town who'd Believe "
She like a cat would to a pigeon on the roof She says, "i look into for universal truths" And we drank in the moment whiskey hundred "but if orion fell," she said, "i'd you"
The view from her roof could make head Just It was like holding up the world in a And we drank it down,m every light in Like the sweetest, medicine I made my wish on a dish But still strikes too soon strikes too soon
Cathy never to slow down 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 this city for the of her roof Every window tells a in cold hard truth As the world beneath me, I ask it for proof That I'm my life in my own way Or will just have it's own say
Midnight too soon Midnight strikes too Midnight strikes too strikes too soon