NYC Man - Joseph Arthur

It can only lead to trouble if you break my heart

If you accidentally crush it on the ides of March

I’d prefer you were straight forward

You don’t have to go through all of that

I’m a New York city man, baby, and say «go"and that is that

New York city man

You just say «go"and that is that

I’m a New York city man

You just say «go"and that is that

It’s far too complicated to make up a lie

That you’d have to remember and really why

I wouldn’t want to be around you

If you didn’t want to have me around

I’m a M-A-N-N man

You blink your eyes and I’ll be gone

M-A-N-N man

You blink your eyes, honey, I’ll be gone

New York city man

You blink your eyes, honey, I’ll be gone

Brutus made a pretty speech but Caesar was betrayed

Lady Macbeth went crazy but Macbeth ended slain

Ophelia and Desdamona dead leaving Hamlet in a play

But I’m no Lear with blinded eyes, say «go"and I am gone

The stars have shut their eyes up tight

The earth has changed it’s course

A Kingdom sits on a black knight’s back

As he tries to mount a white jeweled horse

While a clock full of butterflies on the hour

Releases a thousand moths

You say «leave"and I’ll be gone without any remorse

No letters faxes phones or tears

There’s a difference between bad and worse

I’m a New York city man

Blink your eyes and I’ll be gone

New York city man, M-A-N

You blink your eyes, honey, I’ll be gone

New York city, I love you

Honey blink your eyes, I am gone

New York city man, M-A-N

Blink your eyes and I’m gone

New York city, I love you

Blink your eyes, I am gone

Grain of sand, I love you

Blink your eyes, I am gone

New York city man, M-A-N

Blink your eyes, I am gone