Tonart: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
in New York town
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Waking up as the wheels touch down
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Pick up my guitar and walk away
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Wish I was going home to stay
Verse 2
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Line of taxis I wait my turn
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Tar and asphalt, exhaust and fumes
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Taxi drivers are kneeling
Dsus2
down
Verse 3
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Beneath the concrete sky
I watch them pray
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While the people of the world
hurry on their way
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I think they're praying for
us all today
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The stories that fell from the sky
Verse 4
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land of the living
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This is the land that's mine
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She still watches over Manhattan
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She's still holding onto
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E
that torch for life
Verse 5
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Back home fire's still burning
I can see it in the air
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Pictures of faces posted everywhere
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They say hazel eyes, chestnut hair
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Mother of two missing down there
Verse 6
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I pass the firemen on duty tonight
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Carpets of flowers in candlelight
E
And thank you in a child's scrawl
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Taped to the Third street
firehouse wall
Verse 7
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There's shadows of the lost
on the faces I see
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Brothers and strangers on
this island of grief
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There's death in the air
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But there's life on the street
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F#m
There's life on the street
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(chorus)
Verse 8
said Hudson Street please
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He started the meter and he looked at me
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I glanced at the name on
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And looked out the window
at the ghost filled streets
Verse 9
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I no ticed the cuts on his
hand and his face
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And I said You're bleeding, are you okay?
E
He said "I'm not so good
got beat up today
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And I'm not one of them no
matter what they say
Verse 10
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I'm just worried about my family
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My wife's in the house and
she's scared to leave"
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And I didn't know what to say
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I didn't know what to say
E
I said a prayer for him anyway
Outro 1
(chorus)
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