Lexington

She don’t wanna go downtown

She’s got a date at the Cooper Hewitt

The worker bees cruise 5th

to the front steps of the MET while her blues sail down

to Lexington

High times at school,

Learnin about 12th century structures

Gothic film slides roll

Rush to a class on the rooftop drawing chic, sustainable homes

on Lexington

Thought she had it all on the edge of 70th and Lex

All prim and proper, young, unabashedly dressed

Strange little tangents take a crack at her skull

So she left high tea to go downtown with them Essex street folk

She took a 6 line down

Pretends she’s dueling reflections of train cars

A strangers face lights up, they got soft eyes with a bit of pride

but it lifts her out

of Lexington

It lifts her out

Far out, of Lexington

She’s a downtown girl now

She’s a downtown girl now

and there’s just no turning back