suzanne vega
new york is a woman
New York City spread herself before you With her bangles and her spangles and her stars You were impressed with a city so undressed You had to go out cruising all the bars  Your business trip extended through the weekend Suburban boy here for your first time From the twenty-seventh floor above the midtown roar You were dazzled by her beauty and her crime  And she's every girl you've seen in every movie Every dame you've ever known on late night TV In her steam and steel is the passion you feel Endlessly  New York is a woman, she'll make you cry And to her you're just another guy  Look down and see her ruined places Smoke and ash still rising to the sky She's happy that you're here, but when you disappear She won't know that you're gone to say goodbye  New York is a woman, she'll make you cry And to her you're just another guy  And she's every girl you've seen in every movie Every dame you've ever known on late night TV In her steam and steel is the passion you feel Desperately  New York is a woman, she'll make you cry And to her you're just another guy