Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Midnight Strikes Too Soon, artist - Ellis Paul. Album song Essentials, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 15.07.1996
Record label: Concord, Rounder
Song language: English
Midnight Strikes Too Soon |
Cathy’s hailing a cab like she’s hailing a storm |
Unto the streets of New York City |
ONce we’re inside, it’s a carnival ride |
That brings a white knuckle kind of dizzy |
She takes me up on her rooftop |
Framed by a backdrop of watertanks and chimneys |
She’s wrapped round a cigarette |
Lecturing etiquette, while I look in the windows |
Beneath me |
We took in Saturday and it was medicine |
And when nighttime came the skyline just swallowed |
The moon |
Cathy lays the blame on Thomas Alva Edison |
And 60 million lightbulbs telling New York that |
It’s noon |
Ah, midnight strikes too soon |
Midnight strikes too soon |
She says, «in New York City, They throw their |
Wishes into wells |
'cause you can’t see a star, unless one hit you when |
It fell -- ««And if even you caught one,» I say, «Who |
Could you tell in this whole damn town who’d |
Believe you?» |
She smiled like a cat would to a pigeon on the roof |
She says, «I look into windows for universal truths» |
And we drank in the moment like whiskey hundred |
Proof |
«But if Orion fell,» she said, «I'd tell you» |
The view from her roof could make your head |
Just spin |
It was like holding up the world in a tablespoon |
And we drank it down, m every light in town |
Like the sweetest, kindest medicine |
I made my wish on a satellite dish |
But still midnight strikes too soon |
Midnight strikes too soon |
Cathy never seems to slow down |
She’s a hurricane working a skyscraper town |
She laughs at me, says I’m suburban bound |
But the truth is I live on a highway |
I come to this city for the solace of her roof |
Every window tells a story in cold hard truth |
As the world spins beneath me, I ask it for proof |
That I’m living my life in my own way |
Or will time just have its own say |
Midnight strikes too soon |
Midnight strikes too soon |
Midnight strikes too soon |
Midnight strikes too soon |