New York is far away from here New York is far away from here And you can see it in the rain And you can see it in the cheap suits and the ties It's just a fallen away frontier It's just a fallen away frontier And they are fencing it with fast food chains And buildings that go up before your eyes And you say everybody's marching to the same beat Marching to the same beat of the drum Everybody's thinking of the same thing But I will, I will, I will beg to differ with you New York is far away from here New York is far away from here And you can see it in the coffee shops And catch it from the corner of your eye It's just a layer of thin veneer It's just a layer of thin veneer Then it stretches like a parking lot That's swept up in a string of satellites And you say everybody's marching to the same beat Marching to the same beat of the drum Everybody's thinking of the same thing But I will, I will, I will beg to differ with you Full-moon rising up in the air tonight Freight train coming through to catch a ride down one [Incomprehensible] Think about my love, oh my sweater a little tighten up The [Incomprehensible] at distance and I feel little better, you see You say everybody's marching to the same beat Marching to the same beat of the drum Everybody's thinking of the same thing But I will, I will, I will beg to differ with you New York is far away from here New York is far away from here And you can see it in the setting sun See it just before you say goodbye It's just a landscape of souvenirs It's just a landscape of souvenirs And I'm embarra**ed to be human I'm embarra**ed that I want what I despise You say everybody's marching to the same beat, yeah Marching to the same beat of the drum Everybody's thinking of the same thing But I will, I will, I will beg to differ with you