A Map of New York

[STEPHEN]
Think of each plaza, pier, and public park
How many sit there empty, lonely, dark
Think of it, for tomorrow's sake
Think of how you and I can make our mark

You and I
We can draw a brand-new grid
Everything that you dreamed of as a kid
Give it a year, and go with me
Soon enough, you'll say "Look what we two did"

You've always had the right dream
We've always made a tight team
Now at last you're back
Exactly where you ought to be
So let's make a map of New York you and me

[NEW YORKER]
Twenty-two Reade, a building, sidewalk, shade

[ANOTHER NEW YORKER]
Now a memory that for Beth will never fade

[BETH]
And I could be planning city sites
Where memories just like this one might be made

[WRITER]
Thirty-three Bond
Where I wrote my first book

[CHEF]
Greenwich and Moore
Where I learend how to cook

[YOUNG WOMAN]
The Center Street courts
I intern there

[BETH]
The joy of this job is everywhere I look

[MESSENGER]
That market was my first job

[ELENA]
That diner was my worst job

[THOSE SIX]
And everywhere around me are these lives I left behind

[FOREMAN]
The tunnel where I laid rail

[REALTOR]
The co-op where I made my first sale

[ALL EIGHT]
They make a map of New York in my mind

[ANNE]
Put a sticker on the map where you landed that first day

[KATE]
Put a pin on the bridge

[LUCAS]
On the train

[ANNE]
On J.F.K

[BETH]
On the street where I swore I'd afford a place some day

[KATE, ANNE, LUCAS & NEW YORKERS]
Ev'ry avenue and place
Ev'ry building, ev'ry face
Of the lovers and the friends
The beginnings and the ends
Make a map of NYC
Where I've been and who I'll be
And you'll find me

[LIZ]
And you're feeling adrift, alone, apart
Then suddenly life will somehow start
And a map of New York is written on your heart

[NEW YORKERS]
On your heart
On your heart

[BETH]
I'm too old for all that shit
To be told I'm selling out
Then again, all these years
Did I lose what I'm about?
On the street, in the cold
It's so hard to fight the doubt

[BETH & NEW YORKERS]
Then you hear the tunnel hum
With a rain about to come
And you surface to the street
And you fall into the beat
You can trace a line to me
On that map of NYC
Right where I should be

[STEPHEN]
Think of how human life will ebb and flow

[STEPHEN & BETH]
People, and how they'll come and how they'll go
Remember the things we hoped and planned

[STEPHEN]
Remember them, and believe them, and you'll know

[BETH & STEPHEN]
We'll know

[BETH, STEPHEN & NEW YORKERS]
We never walk a straight line
We never check a street sign

[BETH & STEPHEN]
But it's in the detour that we truly find our way

[STEPHEN & NEW YORKERS]
We always know the way home

[BETH & NEW YORKERS]
As long as we can stay here we're home

[BETH]
And we make a map of work

[NEW YORKERS]
Love and loss and life

[STEPHEN]
And we make a map of play

[NEW YORKERS]
We find our way

[STEPHEN & NEW YORKERS]
And we make a map of New York ev'ry day

[NEW YORKER]
Ending the night at 23rd and Third

[ANOTHER NEW YORKER]
Liz and her date
Who's hanging on every word