Cathy's hailing a cab she's hailing a storm Unto the of new york city Once we're inside, it's a ride That brings a knuckle kind of dizzy
She me up on her rooftop, Framed by a backdrop of and chimneys wrapped round a cigarette, Lecturing etiquette, while I look in the me
We in saturday and it was medicine And when nighttime came the skyline swallowed The Cathy lays the blame on thomas alva And 60 million lightbulbs new york that It's Ah, midnight strikes too Midnight too soon
She says, "in new york city, they throw into wells 'cause you 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 on the roof She says, "i look into windows for truths" And we drank in the like whiskey hundred "but if fell," she said, "i'd tell you"
The view from her could make your 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 my wish on a satellite dish But still strikes too soon strikes too soon
Cathy seems to slow down She's a hurricane a skyscraper town She at me, says I'm suburban bound But the truth is I live on a
I come to city for the solace of her roof Every window tells a story in hard truth As the spins beneath me, I ask it for proof That I'm living my in my own way Or will time just it's own say
Midnight too soon strikes too soon Midnight too soon Midnight too soon