Perhaps this song is an antidote to all the songs singing the praises of New York in recent years?
It seems to me to be about a break up, her lover has gone to New York and decided to stay, and so she laments that New York has poisoned her lover against her. She doesn't want to hear about his new friends and his new life. She even sings "please don't make me go to New York" towards the end.
Seems she realises that she has to let him go because he has a new life without her and she doesn't want to be a part of it, she just wants him back with her.
Quite a poignant song for anyone who has lost a lover to the perils of long distance relationships - they make new friends, they have new experiences, and inevitably become different people.
Perhaps this song is an antidote to all the songs singing the praises of New York in recent years?
It seems to me to be about a break up, her lover has gone to New York and decided to stay, and so she laments that New York has poisoned her lover against her. She doesn't want to hear about his new friends and his new life. She even sings "please don't make me go to New York" towards the end.
Seems she realises that she has to let him go because he has a new life without her and she doesn't want to be a part of it, she just wants him back with her.
Quite a poignant song for anyone who has lost a lover to the perils of long distance relationships - they make new friends, they have new experiences, and inevitably become different people.