Cathy's hailing a cab like hailing a storm the streets of new york city Once inside, it's a carnival ride That brings a white knuckle kind of
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 alva edison And 60 million telling new york that It's Ah, midnight strikes too Midnight strikes too
She says, "in new york city, they throw Wishes wells you can't see a star, unless one hit you when It -- " "and if even you one," I say, "who Could you tell in this whole 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 moment like hundred "but if fell," she said, "i'd tell you"
The view from her could make your head Just It was holding up the world 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 midnight too soon Midnight too soon
never seems to slow down She's a hurricane a skyscraper town 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 have it's own say
Midnight too soon strikes too soon Midnight strikes too Midnight strikes too