Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

Think there's a line that I crossed somewhere over the border

'Cos I broke every rule you had written in your little book

Singing Neil Young songs to the ones who, like lambs to the slaughter

Are combing their hair and selling stories about drugs they took

Verse 2

And Renee she thinks that all of her prayers have been answered

When she stands under the lights to make those six wires sing

But the truth is those strings are just pulled by a roomful of chancers

And there's nothing original, not even original sin

Chorus

And I want to run run run fast as I can

Let those grey gloves wrap their fingers around my heart

I want to run run run so far from here

'Till the streets of Manhattan just tear this waster apart

No I don't wanna talk, I wanna dance in New York

I wanna dance in New York

(Chords are pretty much the same throughout the rest of the song, except for an extra

at the very end)

Verse 3

Well I heard a breeze blow like a ghost riding out cross the ocean

And the smell of the midsummer sun dripping down through the blue

It's so easy to drift through these things with your eyes half open

Looking out for the prize lining up all the things left to prove

Verse 4

And who would have thought that a year on I'd be where I'm standing

Half singing a song to a person I've only half met

But I have fought like a wildcat for space and understanding

And boy let me tell you I'm not done fighting yet

Chorus

'Cos I want to run run run fast as I can

Let those grey gloves wrap their fingers around my heart

I want to run run run so far from here

'Till the streets of Manhattan just tear this waster apart

No I don't wanna talk, I wanna dance in New York

I wanna dance in New York

Verse 5

So sing to me all of you children of one minute wonder

Sing it out like you've always wanted to do

I will dance in the street no matter who's sky I am under

You sing it out and I'll sing it straight back to you

Chorus

Then let me run run run fast as I can

Let those grey gloves wrap their fingers around my heart

I want to run run run so far from here

'Till the streets of Manhattan just tear this waster apart

No I don't wanna talk, I wanna dance in New York

I wanna dance in New York

I wanna dance in New York