New York, You're My Concrete Lover

(album: The Black Cat Neighbourhood - 2011)

I've got the night
I've got the day
I've got a ticket for a plane back home and a thousand reasons to stay
I've got no light, but I know my way
Home is where my heart is, home is where my heart is longing to stay

New York, you're my concrete lover
You make me hard as steel
New York, you're my concrete lover
You turn my heart to steam
New York, you're my concrete lover
And I'll make you a deal
I'll give you everything for the way you make me feel

I never sleep
I'm just like you
I'm lying in my bed with my eyes open, hoping you'll come through
You rise and swell with your dreams to sell
I think this could be love, but I don't know you that well

New York, you're my concrete lover
You make me hard as steel
New York, you're my concrete lover
You turn my heart to steam
New York, you're my concrete lover
And I'll make you a deal
I'll give you everything for the way you make me feel

Put me back on the street, I'm a child of the pavement
Put me back on the street, I'm a child of the pavement
It's where I 'm scraping my knees when I try to get up, again
It's where I 'm scraping my knees when I try to get up, again

Put me back on the street, I'm a child of the pavement
It's where I 'm scraping my knees when I try to get up, again
Put me back on the street, I'm a child of the pavement
It's where I 'm scraping my knees when I try to get up, again

New York, you're my concrete lover
You make me hard as steel
New York, you're my concrete lover
You turn my heart to steam
New York, you're my concrete lover
And I'll make you a deal
I'll give you everything for the way you make me feel

For heaven's sake
Or just for mine
Anywhere you take me I just follow behind
I'm bigger now, and small somehow
Baby, it's all marvellous
Let's make it worth while

New York, you're my concrete lover
You make me hard as steel
New York, you're my concrete lover
You turn my heart to steam
New York, you're my concrete lover
And I'll make you a deal
I'll give you everything for the way you make me feel