Here is a better and more simplified version of this really excellent song: 

     - xx3211
    - 
C#aug - xx3221

 or x432x1


[Verse 1]

             
  New York I l

              
ove you, but y

              
ou're bringing

        
 me down
             
  New York I l

              
ove you, but y

              
ou're bringing

             
 me down
             
Like a rat in 

              
a cage, pullin

               
g minimum wage
             
  New York I l

              
ove you, but y

              
ou're bringing

          
 me down


[Verse 2]

             
  New York you

              
're safer, and

              
 you're wastin

         
g my time
             
  Our records 

              
all show you a

              
re filthy but 

    
fine
             
But they shutt

              
ered your stor

             
es, when you o

             
pened the door

   
s
             
  To the cops 

              
who were bored

              
 once they'd r

            
un out of crim

  
e


[Verse 3]

             
  New York you

              
're perfect, p

              
lease don't ch

           
ange a thing
             
  Your mild bi

              
llionaire mayo

              
r's now convin

            
ced he's a kin

  
g
             
So the boring 

              
collect, I mea

            
n all disrespe

    
ct
             
  In the neigh

              
borhood bars I

              
'd once dreamt

             
 I would drink


[Verse 4]

             
  New York I l

              
ove you, but y

              
ou're freaking

        
 me out
             
  There's a to

              
n of the twist

              
 but we're fre

            
sh out of shou

  
t
             
Like a death i

              
n the hall, th

            
at you hear th

              
rough your wal

   
l
             
  New York I l

              
ove you, but y

              
ou're freaking

        
 me out


[Verse 5]

             
  New York I l

              
ove you, but y

              
ou're bringing

        
 me down
             
  New York I l

              
ove you, but y

              
ou're bringing

        
 me down
             
Like a death o

              
f the heart, j

            
esus, where do

          
 I start?
             
  but you're s

              
till the one p

              
ool where I'd 

            
happily drown


[Outro]

            
And oh.. take 

              
me off your ma

          
iling list
         
For kids who t

              
hink it still 

                                       
exists
             
Yes, for those

              
 who think it 

           
still exists
          
Maybe I'm wron

             
g, and maybe y

                                                
ou're right
             
Maybe I'm wron

              
g, and maybe y

          
ou're right
             
Maybe you're r

              
ight, maybe I'

                
m wrong
              
And just maybe

            
 you're right

           
And Oh........

         
... maybe moth

           
er told you tr

ue
              
And they're'll

             
 always be som

          
ebody there fo

r you
              
And you'll nev

       
er be alone
              
But maybe she'

             
s wrong, and m

                            
aybe I'm right
              
And just maybe

           
 she's wrong
             
Maybe she's wr

              
ong, and maybe

                           
 I'm right
              
And if so, her

        
e's thi - is  

   (
    song...

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