Elbow's New York Morning

[Jules]

As good an ode ever written to NYC.

 

Every bone of rivet steel, each corner stone an ankle

Jenga jutts and rusted water tower, pillar-posted sign

Every painted line and battered, laddered building in this town

Sings a life of proud endeavor at the best that man can be

 

Me, I see a city and I hear a million voices

Planning, drilling, welding, carrying their fingers to the nub

Reaching down into the ground, stretching up into the sky

Why?

Because they can, they did and do so you and I could live together

 

 

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