Union City Blue Lyrics

Lyric discussion by karnasaur 

Cover art for Union City Blue lyrics by Blondie

It's about a woman in Manhattan who is in love with a man in Union City, NJ, just over the river. She takes the tunnel to visit him, but their worlds are so different, she being a professional or a musician or something in Manhattan, while he works in a factory or shipyard of some sort (wearing blue coveralls) in Union City, that their love is doomed. Or at least troubled.

Union City is also home to the US's biggest annual Passion Play, so they cleverly allude to that. Maybe the dude's Cuban (big Cuban town, apparently), so maybe that's a problem too.

Or maybe it relates to the plot of the movie "Union City," which I haven't seen. Anyone?