[00:52.830]July winds burn the wheat fields under bible belt sun[00:57.300]Mydaddy's hands are black with earth, his dreams come undone[01:01.170]When winter comes and ices over every highway and wish[01:05.490]We trade our ghosts for whiskey neat on a carpeted floor[01:09.750]Thesky's a faded denim blue, like the jacket you wore[01:14.700]River whispers carry secrets to some forgotten shore[01:18.450]All our pickled regrets and neon- bruited desires[01:23.040]We sway like cheap curtains to ajazzstation's fire[01:29.970]New York Manhattan, my hometown[01:34.320]Saxophone moans in alostempire's crown[01:38.760]Drinking withdemons'til the moon bleeds red[01:43.260]Dancing on ledges with the stars in our head[01:47.220]New York Manhattan, my hometown[01:52.140]Born in your concrete, buried in your ground[01:56.250]Your love is a fever, your lies are gold- leaf[02:00.480]God,I'm so gone for you, beyond belief[02:25.590]Mama's wedding dress yellows in the attic dust[02:28.920]Her cherry- stained kisses turned to rust and lust[02:33.180]All the prayers we lost inthesubway's steel vein[02:37.980]Are blooming like tattooed roses through my skin in the rain[02:42.000]Thesky's a faded denim blue, like the jacket you wore[02:46.920]River whispers carry secrets to some forgotten shore[02:50.640]All our pickled regrets and neon- bruited desires[02:55.440]We sway like cheap curtains to ajazzstation's fire[03:02.190]New York Manhattan, my hometown[03:06.540]Saxophone moans in alostempire's crown[03:10.920]Drinking withdemons'til the moon bleeds red[03:15.360]Dancing on ledges with the stars in our head[03:19.230]New York Manhattan, my hometown[03:24.150]Born in your concrete, buried in your ground[03:28.230]Your love is a fever, your lies are gold- leaf[03:32.490]God,I'm so gone for you, beyond belief[03:39.240]The preacher said this land once flowed with milk and holy light[03:43.770]Now streetlights blister in the rain, swollen and bright[03:48.330]ButI'll still trace my crimson lips on every crossroad sign[03:54.360]And write our tragedies in gasoline and cheap wine[03:59.400]New York Manhattan, my hometown[04:09.660]Saxophone moans in alostempire's crown[04:13.590]Swapping glances with falling angels headed down[04:17.880]Letting our desires drown intheHudson's sound[04:20.460]New York Manhattan, my hometown[04:26.880]Your concrete gardens where damnation is found[04:31.440]Singing hallelujah with my last breath in this place[04:35.400]God,I'm so lost in you, beyond any grace[04:43.980]God,I'm so lost in you, beyond any grace