Manhattan

Sideways storyteller
Rain against my car as I drive home
Just the view from my economy unit
That looks away from you

My dark hair and coffee
Two things you say you need
City lights that never seem to burn out
The way you said we would be

It’s like the cards
Were stacked against us
And it felt like snow in August
And the avenues he used to kiss me under
Don’t know me like they used to

Now i’m hoping to be someone new ooh ooh ooh ooh
Fighting temptation after temptation to hear the static voice of you
Oh the fire escapes we used to climb but
This love was never mine, and you
Don’t deserve it but it’s never new, never new
Manhattan misses you

Counting your contradictions
Your rules as fragile as cold glass
You forget yourself sometimes
My present in your past

I knew the traffic moved too slow
It was written on your face
But you let the claustrophobic streets
Take you far away from me

And now i’m
Hoping to be someone new ooh ooh ooh ooh
Fighting temptation after temptation
To hear the static voice of you
Oh the fire escapes we used to climb but
This love was never mine, and you
Don’t deserve it but it’s never new, never new
Manhattan misses you

And we won’t talk, and i’ll hang up
And i’ll turn my car around
Back to the city, that loves me
To the skyline and the clouds
And we won’t talk, and i’ll hang up
And i’ll turn my car around
Back to the city, that loved me
To the skyline and the clouds

And now i’m hoping
And now i’m hoping

Manhattan misses you

Hoping to be someone new ooh ooh ooh ooh
Fighting temptation after temptation
To hear the static voice of you
Oh the fire escapes we used to climb but
This love was never mine, and you
Don’t deserve it but it’s never new, never new
Manhattan misses you

I unpack my bags
Close my eyes
I breathe in again
And I
Turn out the light