There's diamonds in the avenue

As the dayshift turns to night

In the Empire dinner dreaming

Hard rain, fluorescent lights

As the waitress fills my coffee cup

And the working girls go by

Drenched Irish Cops are dreaming sex

And peep show alibis



Everything underneath the skyline

From the east side to the west

I see the miracles in real time

And there's one I've loved the best

See there's an angel on the D train

As she's flying to my world

And I'm waiting for a N.Y.C. girl



Times Square looks like Avalon

In a Disney morphine dream

Dylan Thomas rides a white horse drunk

At the counter next to me

I wake up in the bed sometimes

And watch her as she sleeps

In the silence and the sirens

I pray her soul to keep



Chorus



The catherine wheel burns bright tonight

Down on the avenue

But nowhere near as bright, my love

As the fire that burns for you



Everything underneath the skyline

From the east side to the west

Of the lives I've lived and those I've known

There is one I've loved the best



See there's an angel on the C train

As she's flying to my world

And I'm waiting for a N.Y.C. girl

And I'm waiting for a N.Y.C. girl