Back in New York (Electric Mix)

I'm back in New York, I've been away too long

I'm back where the buildings touch the sky

I'm back in New York, I'm back where I belong

I'm back where the subways sing a lullaby

I want to walk the streets of a jingle-jangle morning,

Where Dave Van Ronk would sing, where Trane played "Epistropy"

I want to shout out to the denizens of Old Wall Street

There's nothing left that you can do to me

Now I'm back in New York, I've been away too long

I'm back where the taxis pass me by 

I'm back in New York, I'm back where I belong

to stand underneath an incandescent sky

I want to dance with you on cobblestones and watch our breath 

Turn into clouds on which we, too, can float away

And we can turn our backs on history, we're not impressed

There's no one else alive but us today

Come, we can wander, lost, like Abraham, through centuries

Of immigrants who came here for a better life

We came here looking for ourselves, but in the end we found 

You can't walk into the same river twice

So throw away the shackles of your hopes and dreams, my dear

They'll only tether you to what can never be

You'll find me at the White Horse toasting to Jack Kerouac

Who had to lose himself to be set free

Now I'm back in New York, 

I've been away too long . . .