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New York Morning Lyrics
The first to pour the simple truth in words
Binds the world in a feeling all familiar
'Cause everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
Antenna up and out into New York
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
And oh, my giddy aunt, New York can talk
It's the modern Rome where folk are nice to Yoko
Every bone of rivet steel, each corner stone and angle
Jenga jut and rusty water tower, pillar, post and sign
Every painted line and battered ladder building in this town
Sings a life of proud endeavor and 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
Oh my God, New York can talk
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
Oh my God, New York can talk
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
Oh my God, New York can talk
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
The desire to part sure symphony
The desire like a distant storm
For love, be good for me
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
Oh my God, New York, you talk
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the greats ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
The way the day begins
Decides the shade of everything
But the way it ends depends on if you're home
For every soul, a pillow at a window, please
In a modern Rome where folk are nice to Yoko
Binds the world in a feeling all familiar
'Cause everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
And oh, my giddy aunt, New York can talk
It's the modern Rome where folk are nice to Yoko
Jenga jut and rusty water tower, pillar, post and sign
Every painted line and battered ladder building in this town
Sings a life of proud endeavor and the best that man can be
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
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the great ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
The desire like a distant storm
For love, be good for me
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers
Everybody owns the greats ideas
And it feels like there's a big one round the corner
Decides the shade of everything
But the way it ends depends on if you're home
For every soul, a pillow at a window, please
In a modern Rome where folk are nice to Yoko
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I think the lyric is "modern rome" not "modern road". Modern Rome means centre of the world.
Giddy Aunt is an old fashioned expression which is used as an exclamation - a quaint version of OMG.
"Where folk are nice to Yoko" refers to the fact that John Lennon was hounded out of the UK and moved to NY as the press were mean to his wife. NY adopted them as their own and they are symbols of NY.
Clearly not the correct song.
'A tenner, up and out into New York' should be 'Antenna up and out into New York'
Guy spoke on Desert Island Discs about being anonymous in NYC and just observing and taking in the talk of the hubbub, hence his 'antenna up' tuning in.....
Great song.
The attribution is clearly wrong here: this song was NOT written by "Deborah/Rogers Clarkin" apparently those people are in a group "Elbow Bones and The Racketeers"
This song was adapted pretty directly from a entry in Guy Garvey's diary whilst he was staying in New York after his split from his long term girlfriend.
I like the giddy aunt line, it's nicked from his gran or auntie I think.
It's a lovely eulogy of a place Garvey spent a lot of time in recently. It's like a love story for a people and a place.
The Ono quote was taken from Lennon. I've read that Yoko was abused by the English press and it was Lennon who originally said that, 'folk were nice to Yoko'
Typically anthemic Garvey angelic I'm autistic!
Sorry, couldn't think of any more. Thanks again Guy and the guys.
Modern room and Yoko, interesting, will have to mull that one.