If All The World Were Like New York City...

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If all the world were like new york city
A walk through concrete ecstacy
Stars would beg to be neon streams
In the Manhattan island of your dreams

Peace on a Brooklyn night
Joined in varied lives
And the event any of this were true
I'd love you and I'd hate you and I'd need you too

If all the world were like San Francisco
Back from digital ashes below
Hills would awake to cable cars
Passing Victorian demi-stars

Love would be discreet
Down on Market Street

And the event all of this were true
I'd love you and I'd hate you and I'd need you too

Held my soul to my vest
On Central Park and West
Slips of fortune cast away
Along Grant Avenue and Broadway

Over my shoulder I hear
Bowery breathing in my ear
And to my left I see
Hunters' Point falling to the sea

If all the world were like Now York City
And San Francisco traded in beauty
for every beg and plea for a coin
Lining the streets of the Tenderloin

We still face hunger at the feast
Staring down the belly of the beast

And the event any of this were true
I'd love you and I'd hate you and I'd need you too

But the towers are no more
saved in bits of lore
For my sister's sake
Dive into the next earthquake

And in the event any of this were true
I'd love you and I'd hate you and I'd need you too