New York

(Empire State of Mind Part 2 - Featuring Alicia Keys)

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Ooohh New York

Ooohh New York

Grew up in a town that is famous as the place of movie scenes

Noise was always loud, there are sirens all around and the streets are mean

If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere, that's what they say

Seeing my face in lights or my name on marquees found down on Broadway


Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams

Baby, I'm from New York

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of


There's nothing you can't do


Now you're in New York


These streets will make you feel brand new


Big lights will inspire you


Hear it for New York, New York, New York!



On the avenue, there ain't never a curfew, ladies work so hard


Such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God


Hail a gypsy cab, takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge


Some will sleep tonight with a hunger far more than an empty fridge

I'm gonna make it by any means, I got a pocketful of dreams


Baby, I'm from New York


Concrete jungle where dreams are made of


There's nothing you can't do


Now you're in New York


These streets will make you feel brand new


Big lights will inspire you


Hear it for New York, New York, New York!


One hand in the air for the big city,


Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty


No place in the world that can compare


Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah


In New York!



Concrete jungle where dreams are made of


There's nothing you can't do


Now you're in New York


These streets will make you feel brand new

Big lights will inspire you


Hear it for New York!