Empire State Of Mind

Alicia Keys

Ooohh New York (2x)

1. Grew up in a town that is famous as the place of movie scenes
   Noise is always loud, there are sirens all around and the streets are 
   mean
   If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere, that's what they say
   Seeing my face in lights or my name in marquees found down on Broadway

X: Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams

R: Baby, I'm from New York
   Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
   There's nothing you can't do
   Now you're in New York
   These streets will make you feel brand new
   Big lights will inspire you
   Let's hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!

2. On the avenue, there ain't never a curfew, ladies work so hard
   Such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God
   Hail a gypsy cab, takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge
   Some will sleep tonight with a hunger for more than an empty fridge

X: I'm gonna make it by any means, I got a pocketful of dreams

R: Baby, I'm from New York...

*: One hand in the air for the big city,
   Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty
   No place in the world that can com-pare
   Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

R: In New York...