Every dame you've ever known on late night TV
Had to go out cruising all the bars
Look down and see her ruined places
And to her you're just another guy
She won't know that you're gone to say goodbye
Smoke and ash still rising to the sky
In her steam and steel is the passion you feel endlessly
You were startled by her beauty and her crime
New York is a woman, she'll make you cry
New York is a woman, she'll make you cry
You were impressed with the city so undressed
In her steam and steel is the passion you feel desperately
And she's every girl you've seen in every movie
New York is a woman, she'll make you cry
Every dame you've ever known on late night TV
From the twenty-seventh floor above the midtown roar
She's happy that you're here but when you disappear
Your business trip extended through the weekend
Suburban boy here for your first time
And she's every girl you've seen in every movie
And to her you're just another guy
