Oh Alice, don't stop and think a minute
Oh I, I got my eyes on you
Now I wonder if she wonders if I wonder if she wonders
Oh I like you
And when a stranger said she sucked, she just smiled believing luck
Now she wants you to forget it and come back before too long
Me and my stupidity sittin' on a fence
Alice you remind me of Manhattan
Now keep a watch on your watch and a watch on her watch
The seedy and the snaz, the shoe boys and the satins
And as a hurricane passed by she clutched the money from the sky
But make it quick if you could, she's gonna star in Hollywood
And you're out in the cold and you know that you've been rolled
Alice you remind me of Manhattan
And digging what I thought was New York city
See Alice is always based on split decisions
Oh, I know it
The seedy and the snaz, the shoe boys and the satins
She must have been at least a fathom high
Like a throne made of gilt that too many Johns have sat in
Me and my camera eyes sitting on a fence
She told me morals are traditions, contradictions, superstitions
She works the 42nd beat on 42nd street
About the times I put her down when she seemed to be right under?
Yeah Alice, the lights were meant for you
And it's a long way to Broadway from a 42nd lay
Like a throne made of gilt that too many Johns have sat in
As she climbed into his truck to make a buck
Ain't no flash in her Cannes, she got the willpower of a horse
Oh Alice, you remind me of Manhattan
Said she couldn't touch them because they're so real
Oh my God, she's running round the trees
See Alice really liked you but you stayed a while too long
Roll up, see Alice on the palace where her name adorns the boards
And the cops don't even stop and you feel old
Laughing at the lights of New York city
With all her golden ambitions and dead rhinestones in her feet
Or your brain is gonna get ya, drop your heart right in it
And you're a shooting star and you'll die if you don't win it
The seedy and the snaz, the shoe boys and the satins
'Cause if you ain't too careful he's gonna kick you in the crotch
You gotta lose what you get and for what you get you lose
Oh just come over
Or is it really just a couple of blocks away
Your weaknesses successful and your selfishness the clue
Like a throne made of gilt that too many Johns have sat in
The producer seems to think, she's kinda good
