We live in Brooklyn baby Manhattan ain't Manhattan since the 1980's When the money splashed in and they trashed the baby With the bathwater just for a dash of safety Cats oughtta know a diamond from a glass fugazi Now you hear the ghosts sighing like Patrick Swayze No more you ever spot a proper pimp and a whore But New York, New York's got a fuckin' M&M store The Midnight Cowboy went American Psycho Gentrified 'til everything white like vitiligo The corpse of 42nd and the tourist traps Make it hard to see mirages of its lurid past So that's why I brought a flashlight to walk through the fog Won't you time travel with me like Doc Brown's dog Through a polyester wormhole, don't stop now I'm gonna show you how your Mom and Daddy used to get down Move it if you hear me now When the best of times were the worst of times Don't save me I'm talkin' bout Dog Day Afternoons, Harlem Nights Back before you'd get a ticket for your Parliament Lights I'm talkin' NY77, Travis Bickle shit Let me spin it backwards like Mr. Mxyzptlk To when the scene was all flares and lifts And you might see the two MJ's sharing a spliff Upstairs at 54, on the floor with the BeeGees Hit the door, catch the Ramones owning CBGB's The streets be awash with the garbage and grime Puddles blinking with the light of a GIRLS GIRLS sign 'Til the blackout threw the stables open, city aflame Caz looted some turntables and invented the game Now little's the same and the blueprint's faded But we still gon' pay our dues to the crews who made it So lose it to the funk, if I see ya'll bouncin' I'll send you back in time like the T-1000 Move it if you hear me now When the best of times were the worst of times Don't save me Well the best we had Was nothing that would last forever Shit ain't never gonna be the same But the funk we shared Is something we can dance together to forever If you can feel it coursing through your veins

C'mere What's this I hear about ya'll not dancin' Ya gotta dance, everybody gotta dance You ain't dancin', you ain't makin' love Drummer know what I'm talkin' bout Now we gonna throw everything in our little toolkit atcha See what you can do with it So when I count to three I want you to show me what you can do One two three SHOW ME Lemme hear you say AHH Well she ain't no ordinary girl But I ain't no ordinary guy (I'm a Man) They hang on her every word But I ain't got that kinda time (I gotta Dance) So the man come up behind the woman and Put his hands upon her hips like this Whispers in her ear Hello? Can you hear? Have no fear I'm only here to please you To sweetly deceive you To completely reconceive you And leave you Leave you beggin' for more All I want is all you got girl All I want is all you got girl All I want is everything given away I know that somewhere You got your mind in the gutter, girl Let's climb down there together I wanna find me another world All I want is all you got girl All I want is all you got girl All I want is everything given away

Where did you come from Gotta control myself You ain't an angel you somethin' else I don't know what you think you doin' girl But I'm doin' it too We ain't got time for hi's or who's whos Oh, fuck takin' it slow We gotta get together Right now (right now) See, in the place to be We gotta make it better Right now (right now) I know I got what you want, girl You know you got what I need now Oh baby baby, just turn around You know I got what you want, girl I know you got what I need Oh baby please just turn around Lay you out in the sunshine Getcha down in the shade Oh stay with me and we'll have it made Don't tell your mama where you goin', girl And I'll do the same We'll rendezvous in secret under assumed names Oh, fuck takin' it slow We gotta get together Right now (right now) See, in the place to be We gotta make it better Right now (right now) I know I got what you want, girl You know you got what I need now Oh baby baby, just turn around You know I got what you want, girl I know you got what I need Oh baby please just turn around

Higher than the treetops ready to blow Ready to blow Ready to blow Wobbly like a seesaw ready to go Ready to go Ready to go Goddammit I see ya'll baby Your time is runnin low Til its time to go home Oh baby come on Roarin like a chainsaw ready to go Ready to go Ready to go Fallin like a A-bomb ready to blow Ready to blow Ready to blow Goddammit I see ya'll baby Your time is runnin low Til its time to go home Oh baby come on Wobbly like a seesaw ready to go Ready to go Ready to go Higher than the treetops ready to blow Ready to blow Ready to blow Goddammit I see ya'll baby Your time is runnin low Til its time to go home Oh baby come on

I know just what you're lookin', I know just what you're waitin' for I know just what you're lookin', I know just what you're waitin' for And if my feet touch off the shore Well I won't need them anymore And if my soul drifts out to the waves I hope I don't remember anything I know just what you're lookin', I know just what you're waitin' for I know just what you're lookin', I know just what you're waitin' for And if my feet get off the ground I like it better in the clouds And if I can't hear you when you call Just know the music here is beautiful What you waiting for

Gather round Gather round for a night on the town its goin down like, Yeah yeah yeah Chase the funk, chase the funk And bottle it up Yeah yeah yeah Shake it up, shake it up Throw the bottle and run Yeah yeah yeah Break the cuffs and take enough Boy you better beware 'Cause when the lights go out, you gon' share Lights out in Brooklyn, lights out in the Bronx Everybody outside, let's go right some wrongs The sidewalk's fillin' up endlessly To see what the fuck is up in the NYC It's been a hot summer, jobs are in the gutter The Son of Sam runnin' round, poppin' off another People stretched tight to the breakin' point All we need is one night to fuckin' blaze this joint Yeah yeah yeah Chase the funk, chase the funk And bottle it up Yeah yeah yeah Shake it up, shake it up Throw the bottle and run Yeah yeah yeah Break the cuffs and take enough Boy you better beware 'Cause when the lights go out, you gon' share First we gonna hit the electronics store 'Cause my power's out so all my shit don't work no more Then we grabbin' turntables and a speakerbox Strangers helping with the load knowing teamwork rocks The party's kickin' off, I don't see no cops All I see's a starvin' city just lickin' its chops So better hide while we seek out the next place to freak out A hundred heads deep, man, your cage can't keep out Yeah yeah yeah Chase the funk, chase the funk And bottle it up Yeah yeah yeah Shake it up, shake it up Throw the bottle and run Yeah yeah yeah Break the cuffs and take enough Boy you better beware 'Cause when the lights go out, you gon' share Lights out in Shaolin, lights out in Queens Every now and then you gotta let off some steam We never had the green, so you stole the scenes Now it's gone black, we takin' back everything Whitey locked up, radio to his ear Hearin' soundbytes from Crown Heights 'bout brown guys Settin' fire to their old jobs that downsized Bushwick burning like a gas lit matchstick They packin' up the squad cars six dudes at once Four cats in the backseat and two in the trunk Fuck, drops in buckets, the cops they can't touch this How you gonna stop a ten thousand-top ruckus? Everything we ever lusted after through glass When we cruised past, knowing we could bust our ass And still never get a taste of the leisure class Now we all racin' round with a season pass It's like That

You don't know Oh how far you'll go I don't mind Tellin' you another time You don't know Oh how far you'll go I don't mind Tellin' you another time, now baby Well, now's your time to learn If you feel like going along, just let me know Well, now's your time to learn You don't know Oh how far you'll go I don't mind Walkin' you across that line You don't know Oh how far you'll go I don't mind Listen to me one more time, now baby Well, now's your time to learn If you feel like going along, just let me know Well, now's your time to learn

When you need work in the city You walk a lonesome road Knocking on the door but nobody's home It's like hope or a rope 'round your throat But you never know The life you save may be your own As the days keep ticking away Said it's hard to pull my soul out of the grave The whole city is drowning around me But I ain't trying to be saved Because I know the only way home is keep begging for change No matter what I do I'm always hangin' on Hangin' on next to you Try to get ahead but instead I'm left hangin' on Hangin' on What do I do Got an interview at 5 o'clock, yeah Like the phone gonna ring Nobody trying to give a man anything Got need to sow my seed But what am I gonna say I can barely feed myself anyway I got nothing I can offer you Except a broken heart inside a man past his use But if you can hide your eyes And give me half a chance I will find a spot on the sidewalk where we can dance No matter what I do I'm always hangin' on Hangin' on next to you Try to get ahead but instead I'm left hangin' on Hangin' on What do I do Guess I'll keep trying to get my peace of mind But god only knows if that comes through I'm out here dying to buy a little precious time So I can spend another night with you

Throw your name up to the sky Throw your name up to the sky Like a million different runaways Throw your name up to the sky Wake up, wake up, you know it's on now You got to get up and lay it all down No time to let up, let others stall now Just keep your head up for when you fall down I know what you think it's gonna be like Everybody you meet is gonna shriek like "Oooh mister mister can you sign an autograph for me?" Well shit, let's see. Show me Throw your name up to the sky Throw your name up to the sky Like a million different runaways Throw your name up to the sky Well maybe I'm just insecure And maybe I want something more Throw your name up to the sky Throw your name up to the sky Like a million different runaways Throw your name up to the sky