[Verse 1]
New York City spread herself before you
With her bangles and her spangles and her stars
You were impressed
With the city so undressed
Had to go out cruising all the bars

[Verse 2]
Your business trip extended through the weekend
Suburban boy here for your first time
From the twenty-seventh floor
Above the Midtown roar
You were startled by her beauty and her crime

[Pre-Chorus]
And she's every girl you've seen in every movie
Every dame you've ever known on late night TV
In her steam and steel is the passion you feel
Endlessly

[Chorus]
New York is a woman
She'll make you cry
And to her you're just another guy

[Verse 3]
Look down and see her ruined places
Smoke and ash still rising to the sky
She's happy that you're here
But when you disappear
She won't know that you're gone to say goodbye

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
New York is a woman
She'll make you cry
And to her you're just another guy

[Pre-Chorus]
And she's every girl you've seen in every movie
Every dame you've ever known on late night TV
In her steam and steel is the passion you feel
Desperately

[Chorus]
New York is a woman
She'll make you cry
And to her you're just another guy