It was just one of those things

Just one of those crazy things.

But then it was so so much more than that

so much more than anyone will ever know. 

Since when is your brain supposed to keep spinning and spinning

like it did in the beginning,

ain't that a kick in the head?

 

I listen to the flashing stop lights and the shrieking taxi cabs 

and the mind numbing chatter coming from those

who's opinions we place so much importance on.

and its there of all places, that I find peace.

 

It's there on the street where you live. 

It's there of all places that I'm home.

 

At least I still stop to listen.

I listen to the lapping of waves on the shore

and we beat on, ceaselessly against the current

 

But it's being on the west coast 

and hearing the west coast waves

that calls me to the west egg-

and puts me in the New York State of mind.

 

I love the feel of plush velvet cushions

the smell of old book bindings

rain and the wet cobblestones that follow

lights that never go out

the cities that never sleep

cities with expectations as high as the skyscrapers that surround them.

 

I want it all.

I want the glitz. 

I want the glam.

All that jazz. 

Take me the way I am, why don't you?

 

Just the way you look tonight

stops my heart and

in that moment I swear it may never beat again. 

 

Just the way you look 

makes me question what I've worked for

loved for

lived for

 

You make me feel so young

like I can do anything

be anyone

 

Underneath that blue moon you saw me standing alone

without a dream in my heart

without a love of my own 

and you left me like that. 

 

But birds do it

bees do it

even educated fleas do it

so that means you can do it too

right?

 

But I can't be strong for much longer

so while you can, 

just Fly me to the moon 

let me play among the stars 

and while youre at it never bring me home

 

The best is yet to come 

I can feel it in my bones

I can feel it in everything I am 

and everything that means anything to me

 

Come fly with me

lets fly fly away 

to a place where no one can find us 

and we've conveniently lost our way home

 

And I'll spare nothing because

Night and Day 

you are the one

and I don't think that changes upon request 

even when it happens to the best of us

Forget to remember 

but dont forget me

dont forget any of us

dont forget that place you once called home 

and that era you once called life

 

Unforgettable

thats what you are

and forever more

in my heart and in my life that's how you'll stay

I just hope you remember me

as I remember you, as unforgettable too.

 

That's why darling

It had to be you

and now the Lady is a Tramp 

because I could have danced all night

I could have danced all night

and still it would have been just as magical

as sitting and saying nothing

 

You go to my head

and My funny valentine we'll be young at heart 

and living in New York New York

but Theres no Business like show bussiness 

so let's not get caught up in the lies that we call society

 

and in the end Ill be seeing you 

in all the old familiar places

especially in this heart of mine 

where love never dies

and where I'll forever be 

in a New York state of mind.