Cheesecake at Rocco's
There’s an Uber on the corner got a fare that never showed
And it’s a long long road from Brooklyn up to Queens
Down in Coney Island Woody Guthrie’s ghost
Is complaining that we don't know what he means
The 59th Street bridge is just a few blocks over
We can ride the MTA from 42nd Street
And I'm standing at a stoplight watching truckers making potholes
Thinking this is all I’ll ever need
We'll walk arm in arm down the Avenue of the Americas
Watch the old men playing chess, get lost in the Strand
And I will buy you cheesecake at Rocco's
The vagabond will lead you by the hand
Through the city of song
There are buskers by the fountain got a mountain of stomp boxes
Their instruments have seen better times
A man is blowing bubbles glowing pretty as a picture
It puts me in an empire state of mind
Fox is analyzing why the Mets have lost a pitcher
For Syndergaard it has to be one base at a time
And Bleecker and MacDougal is the centre of the world
That’s the whole damn human race going by
If you’re ever troubled
If you ever tire
Then take a ride from Track 29
Manhattan’s finest sirens
Will be wailing in the brownstones
Grass will be growing on the West Side Line
© MarkGSongs 2019