Key: E major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
And everything in New York ain't
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always what it seems
You might get fooled if you
come from out of town
But I'm down by law and I
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know my way around
Verse 2
Too much, too many people,
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too much, Raaah!
Verse 3
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Built to shelter the rich and greedy
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Rows of eyes, disguised as windows
Looking down on the poor and the needy
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Miles of people, marching up the avenue
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I'm living in the land of plenty and many
But I'm damn sure poor
and I don't know why
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Too much, too many people,
Verse 5
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A man's on a ledge,
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says he's gonna jump
People gather round, said,
"He won't he's just a chump"
His mortgage is due and
his marriage is through
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He says he ain't gonna
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pay no child support
without a second thought
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He got nothing to eat, no shoes on his feet
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She even left his clothes out in the street
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He keeps hearing noises
He always hears voices
His wife took the kids, the car and the crib
In this man's world,
so much for Women's Lib
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New York big city of dreams
But everything in New York
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You might get fooled if you
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come from out of town
But I'm down by law,
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you might think I'm silly
But you can't tell the women from
They're sugar and spice
and everything nice
But when you get ?em home ain't
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no telling what you find
I seen him eating dog food out of a can
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He says, "I got to eat,
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when I can't afford meat
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I barely can stand, on my own two feet
can't break it
Something?s on my mind
and I just can't shake it
and I want some space
Verse 8
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too many people,
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too much (aha- ha)
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Too much, too many people,
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too much! Raaah!
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reaching into heaven
When over in the ghetto
Just play ball or be an entertainer
'Cause niggaz like me
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can't read too well
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Nobody loves me, nobody cares
I dreamed about a life but I'm
livin' in a nightmare
Paranoid schizo, set back, snowbound
Bad news psycho, heart attack,
breakdown!
Verse 10
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh
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Huh, Hee, HUH!
Verse 11
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If only I could sleep just ten more minutes
to make another day
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If I didn't have to get up and do my thing
I would probably sleep my
I messed up a nice dream,
somethin' bout ice cream
Whipped cream,
Now I gotta get up and face the world,
huh
The pressure is on,
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It ain't never gonna stop
nobody's behind
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Just standin' on line lookin' like a jerk
Gotta get off my butt and
do a full day's work
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I ran into a pothole, got
Should?a been thinking and
tried to fake whiplash
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A crowd gathered round,
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they're callin' me fat
Who you lookin' at with a face like that?
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York New York big
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You might get fooled if you
But I'm down by law
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and I know my way around
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selling satisfaction
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Really is a prankster, tried
to be a gangster
Real big wheel when a gun is in his hands
One dead punk, killed by the man
Verse 14
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New York New York big city
of dreams
And everything in New York
ain't always what it seem
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You might get fooled if you
But I'm down by law
and I know my way around
Verse 15
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Too much, too many people,
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Too much, too many people,
Verse 16
And the tears fall from
the doctor's eyes
The Good Lord has giveth,
and taketh away, huh!
And in the ghetto your life is all you got
In the trash and slime of a world like this
what life is supposed to be
the only thing you see
Is the poverty stricken reality,
Heh!
Much hate and hunger
throughout the races
So why don't everybody just
leave me alone!"
Doin' ninety miles an hour
in the fifty mile zone
They never took the time
to tell you ?bout sex
So you had to learn about
it in the discotheques
Nine months later, the baby is there
And the Nigga that did it said,
"I don't care!"
You don't have enough
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money to help feed two
So you have to choose
between the baby and you
When you put your baby
in the garbage pail
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Then you kissed the kid and put down the lid
And you tried to forget
what you just did, Huh!
Was enough to drive the
young mother crazy
So she ran in the rain trying to
ease the pain
Huh huh, And she drove herself insane
Verse 17
But everything in New York
ain't always what it seem
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You might get fooled if you
come from out of town
But I'm down by law
and I know my way around
Verse 18
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Too much, too many people,
too much (haha ha ha)
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Too much, too many people,
Verse 19
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New York New York big city of dreams
But everything in New York
ain't always what it seem
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You might get fooled if you
come from out of town
But I'm down by law
and I know my way around
Verse 20
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Too much, too many people,
too much (haha ha ha)
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too much
Outro 1
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