There's diamonds in the avenue   As the dayshift turns to night   In the empire dinner dreaming   Hard rain, fluorescent lights      And the waitress fills my coffee cup   As the working girls go by   Drenched Irish cops are dreaming sex   And peep show alibis      Everything underneath the skyline   From the east side to the west   I see the miracles in real time   And there's one I've loved the best      I see there's an angel on the D train   And she's flying to my world   And I'm waiting for a, a New York City girl      Times Square looks like Avalon   In a Disney Morphine dream   Dylan Thomas rides a white horse drunk   At the counter next to me      I wake up in her bed sometimes   And watch her as she sleeps   In the silence and the sirens   I pray her soul to keep      Everything underneath the skyline   From the east side to the west   I see the miracles in real time   And there's one I've loved the best      See there's an angel on the D train   And she's flying to my world   And I'm waiting for a New York City girl      The Catherine wheel burns bright tonight   Down on the avenue   But nowhere near as bright, my love   As the fire that burns for you      Everything underneath the skyline   From the east side to the west   Of the lives I've lived and those I've known   There is one I've loved the best      See there's an angel on the D train   And she's flying to my world   And I'm waiting for a New York City girl   Oh yeah, and I'm waiting for a New York City girl      I'm waiting now   New York City girl   Oh yeah, I'm waiting for   New York City girl   Oh, yeah, yeah   New York City girl