Ain't No Man Manhattan

So you've got nothing much in common

With the artist down in Red Who lost the place he works in

So you could build some condos on the water?

But he buys coffee from the coffee guy

Who's renting from the actor

Who's married to the doctor

Who is in the E.R. trying to save your daughter

Ain't no man Manhattan

No island all his own

On Roosevelt or Staten

Ain't none of us alone

Your action's my reaction

In ways you won't expect

We're all in this together

Yeah we all connect

Take the environment, or housing

Human rights, or education

Every issue is connected

To each person here,

there ain't no separation

Ain't no "I" an island

Anywhere on Earth

How much you love your life is

What ev'ry life is worth

Your answer is my question,

My cause is your effect

We're all in this together

Yeah, we all connect

And we all somehow keep moving even so

All of eight-point-two-five million on the go

All changing you in ways you might not know

Oh...

Ain't no man Manhattan

No island all his owwn

On Roosevelt or Staten

Ain't none of us alone

We live in these collisions

These accidents arise

We somehow find each other

In each other's eyes

So a kindergarten teacher

Helps a certain city planner

Meet a surgeon from Nebraska

And his best friend is a doctor

And the city keeps evolving

And the people keep revolving

All of eight-point-two-five million on the run

A diff'rent way for ev'ry single one

All turning and returning, fast and slow

And we somehow find each other even so