Old New York Songtext / Lyric

New York City

The money sucked it dry

Pull the culture from out the streets

It's all so gentrified

Alphabet city or down on 42nd street

Or the Lower East Side

There was violence in the streets






The greatest city of them all

But it just don't feel the same

I miss the old New York

The tallest buildings in the world

But it just don't look the same

I miss the old New York



The Bowery slums

Turned into fashion boutiques

Where's all the gangs

Drug dealers and the freaks

The Big Apple has lost its taste

10 million people trying just to survive

This fucking urban waste



The old graffiti trains

Can't see out the window

Gotta watch your back

Or you might get jacked