New York, New York-Grandmaster Flash

[ti:New York, New York] [ar:Grandmaster Flash] [al:Message From Beat Street - The Best Of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]New York, New York - Grandmaster Flash [00:13.00]Written by：Melvin Glover/Sylvia Robinson/Edward G Fletcher/Reginald Lamar Griffin [00:26.01]New York New York big city of dreams [00:28.29]And everything in New York ain't always what it seems [00:30.80]You might get fooled if you come from out of town [00:33.17]But I'm down by law and I know my way around [00:35.30]Too much too many people too much aha ha [00:39.46] [00:40.04]Too much too many people too much raaah [00:44.93]A castle in the sky one mile high [00:47.18]Built to shelter the rich and greedy [00:49.01] [00:49.54]Rows of eyes disguised as windows [00:51.84]Looking down on the poor and the needy [00:54.19]Miles of people marching up the avenue [00:56.44]Doing what they gotta do just to get by [00:58.83]I'm living in the land of plenty and many [01:01.11]But I'm damn sure poor and I don't know why [01:03.43]Too much too many people too much [01:05.95] [01:08.10]Too much too many people too much [01:10.67] [01:13.00]A man's on a ledge says he's gonna jump [01:15.22]People gather round said he won't he's just a chump [01:17.63]Cause he lost his job then he got robbed [01:19.93]His mortgage is due and his marriage is through [01:22.04]He says he ain't gonna pay no child support [01:24.37]Because the b**ch left him without a second thought [01:26.67]He got nothing to eat no shoes on his feet [01:29.17]She even left his clothes out in the street [01:31.05] [01:31.61]He keeps hearing noises when he's at home [01:33.72]He always hears voices when he's all alone [01:35.72] [01:36.23]His wife took the kids the car and the crib [01:38.54]In this man's world so much for women's lib [01:40.89]New York New York big city of dreams [01:43.07]But everything in New York ain't always what it seems [01:45.51]You might get fooled if you come from out of town [01:47.98]But I'm down by law and I know my way around [01:50.35]Down in the village you might think I'm silly [01:52.46]But you can't tell the women from the men sometimes [01:54.95]They're sugar and spice and everything nice [01:57.06]But when you get em home ain't no telling what you find [01:59.78]Right next door is a little old man [02:01.90]I seen him eating dog food out of a can [02:04.10]He says I got to eat when I can't afford meat [02:06.52]I barely can stand on my own two feet [02:08.48] [02:09.03]I got a bad habit and I just can't break it [02:11.37]Something's on my mind and I just can't shake it [02:13.70]I need some time and I want some space [02:16.05]I gotta get away from the human race [02:18.26]Too much too many people too much aha ha [02:22.92]Too much too many people too much raaah [02:27.77]Staring at a skyscraper reaching into heaven [02:29.88]When over in the ghetto I'm living in hell [02:31.92] [02:32.45]Just play ball or be an entertainer [02:34.80]'Cause niggaz like me can't read too well [02:37.15]Nobody loves me nobody cares [02:39.51]I dreamed about a life but I'm living in a nightmare [02:41.89]Paranoid schizo set back snowbound [02:44.20]Bad news psycho heart attack breakdown [02:46.15] [02:46.67]Hee huh hee huh hee huh hee huh [02:51.14]Hee huh hee huh hee huh hee huh [02:55.82]Hee huh hee huh hee huh hee huh [02:59.98] [03:00.49]Hee huh hee huh hee huh hee huh [03:05.19]If only I could sleep just ten more minutes [03:07.51]I might find the strength to make another day [03:09.76]If I didn't have to get up and do my thing [03:12.03]I would probably sleep my whole life away [03:14.44]I messed up a nice dream something 'bout ice cream [03:16.94]Whipped cream fruits and a cherry on top [03:19.33]Now I gotta get up and face the world huh [03:21.60]The pressure is on it ain't never gonna stop [03:23.91]I sho' gotta learn to use my mind [03:26.02]I don't want to be kissing nobody's behind [03:28.35]Just standing on line looking like a jerk [03:30.75]Gotta get off my butt and do a full day's work [03:33.33]I ran into a pothole got into a car crash [03:35.87]Should a been thinking and tried to fake whiplash [03:37.98]A crowd gathered round they're calling me fat [03:40.26]Who you looking at with a face like that [03:42.57]New York New York big city of dreams [03:44.76]Everything in New York ain't always what it seems [03:47.30]You might get fooled if you come from out of town [03:49.76]But I'm down by law and I know my way around [03:51.96]On 42 nd street looking for some action [03:54.35]Women standing on the corner selling satisfaction [03:56.63]One young punk just leaning on the fence [03:58.98]Tryin' to make a dollar out of fifteen cents [04:01.34]Really is a prankster tried to be a gangster [04:03.77]Real big wheel when a gun is in his hands [04:06.08]Just did a stick up just got picked up [04:08.40]One dead punk killed by the man [04:10.59]New York New York big city of dreams [04:12.80]And everything in New York ain't always what it seem [04:15.27]You might get fooled if you come from out of town [04:17.67]But I'm down by law and I know my way around [04:19.97]Too much too many people too much ha ha ha ha [04:24.51]Too much too many people too much huh [04:29.50]A baby cries and a mother dies [04:31.55]And the tears fall from the doctor's eyes [04:33.78]Because in this room on this day [04:36.12]The good lord has giveth and taketh away huh [04:38.70]The gift of life really means a lot [04:40.83]And in the ghetto your life is all you got [04:43.15]So you take to the streets trying to exist [04:45.58]In the trash and slime of a world like this [04:48.08]What you watch on TV tells you what life is supposed to be [04:52.55]But when you look outside the only thing you see [04:54.92]Is the poverty stricken reality heh [04:57.52]Abandoned places angry faces [04:59.65]Much hate and hunger throughout the races [05:02.02]You say I'm grown and I'm on my own [05:04.35]So why don't everybody just leave me alone [05:06.51]Now you stay at home talking on the phone [05:09.01]Doing ninety miles an hour in the fifty mile zone [05:11.37]They never took the time to tell you bout sex [05:13.68]So you had to learn about it in the discotheques [05:16.07]Nine months later the baby is there [05:18.27]And the ni**a that did it said I don't care [05:20.53]You don't have enough money to help feed two [05:22.92]So you have to choose between the baby and you [05:25.34]The sky was crying rain and hail [05:27.49]When you put your baby in the garbage pail [05:29.87]Then you kissed the kid and put down the lid [05:32.14]And you tried to forget what you just did huh [05:34.65]The muffled screams of a dying baby [05:36.80]Was enough to drive the young mother crazy [05:39.28]So she ran in the rain trying to ease the pain [05:41.59]Huh huh and she drove herself insane [05:43.45] [05:44.00]New York New York big city of dreams [05:46.13]But everything in New York ain't always what it seem [05:48.61]You might get fooled if you come from out of town [05:50.96]But I'm down by law and I know my way around [05:53.31]Too much too many people too much haha ha ha [05:57.43] [05:57.94]Too much too many people too much huh [06:02.58] [06:21.54]New York New York big city of dreams [06:23.50]But everything in New York ain't always what it seem [06:25.95]You might get fooled if you come from out of town [06:28.37]But I'm down by law and I know my way around [06:30.52]Too much too many people too much haha ha ha [06:35.24]Too much too many people too much