Sam Shaber - Walkin' at Night lyrics

Now I live in New York City, the paement's cracked and the air is gritty The whole damn place can be one sh**ty pity, but hey, that's atmosphere Now New York's a very crowded space, it's real hard to get from place to place And all that damn cigarette smoke blowin' in your face, and comments on your rear But when the lights on the Empire State are dark And no one with sense goes into Central Park When the rich folk are sleeping up on Carnegie Hill And down on 59th the carriage horses stand still If you look you just might find me walkin' at night Yeah there's something so right about walking at night Now most of my friends think that I'm insane, they say "That Sam even walks home in the rain" But I'd just rather get wet than wait around for a train gettin' restless and blue And hungry taxis try to get me to ride; they slow down and pull up to my curbside But I just wait for the light, I don't look them in the eye and then I push on through And when the bands are loading up their cars And all the stools are up on the bars When the gates have been locked around Tompkins Square And the street urchins dream upon the synagogue stairs If you look you just might find me walkin' at night Yeah there's somethin so right about walkin' at night Cause when you ain't got no cash for no cab fare And the subway's down way too deep under there You ain't gonna find a bus anywhere And there's something so serene about that city night air I had a gig last night, an old friend showed up and boy was he lookin' fine I said hey let's go grab a gla** of wine or a coffee So we went outside, he bought me a falafel, and as I munched I thought it wouldn't be awful If I found myself eating an Eggo waffle with him the next day (You catch my drift) He said my friends are hangin', they're very cool So I went along, but I was a fool They threw a Star Trek movie in the VCR I thought if gettin' some means this then this is going too far And so I said "Goodbye" and now I'm walkin' at night Yeah there's something so right about walkin' at night Yeah there ain't nothin' wrong with walkin' at night Hell, I wrote this song while I was walkin' at night