[00:00.20]Written by:Elbow [00:00.30] [00:38.33]The first to put a simple truth in words [00:42.04] [00:43.86]Binds the world in a feeling all familiar [00:48.43] [00:50.72]Cause everybody owns the great ideas [00:55.20] [00:56.75]And it feels like there's a big one round the corner [01:01.45] [01:03.36]Antenna up and out into New York [01:06.72] [01:09.73]Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers [01:13.80] [01:15.98]And oh my giddy aunt New York can talk [01:19.48] [01:22.11]It's the modern Rome and folk are nice to Yoko [01:26.33] [01:28.77]Every bone of rivet steel each corner stone and angle [01:34.11]Jenga jut and rusted water tower pillar post and sign [01:40.68]Every painted line and battered laddered building in this town [01:46.26] [01:46.83]Sings a life of proud endeavour and the best that man can be [01:52.81] [01:54.02]Me I see a city and I hear a million voices [01:59.27]Planning drilling welding carrying their fingers to the nub [02:05.87]Reaching down into the ground stretching up into the sky [02:12.08]Why [02:12.85]Because they can [02:14.20]They did and do [02:15.86]So you and I could live together [02:19.54] [02:45.47]Oh my God New York can talk [02:47.95] [02:50.51]Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers [02:55.20] [02:57.30]Everybody owns the great ideas [03:01.83] [03:03.03]And it feels like there's a big one round the corner [03:07.93] [03:10.73]Oh my God New York can talk [03:13.75] [03:15.68]Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers [03:20.26] [03:22.45]Everybody owns the great ideas [03:26.61] [03:28.46]And it feels like there's a big one round the corner [03:33.11] [03:36.10]Oh my God New York can talk [03:38.93] [03:40.88]Somewhere in all that talk is all the answers [03:45.56] [03:47.77]Everybody owns the great ideas [03:52.00] [03:53.54]And it feels like there's a big one round the corner [03:58.86] [03:59.90]The desire in patchwork symphony [04:04.97] [04:06.25]The desire like a distant storm [04:11.46] [04:12.67]For love did it come for me [04:18.87]And it feels like there's a big one round the corner [04:23.73] [04:25.18]The desire in patchwork symphony [04:30.30] [04:31.36]The desire like a distant storm [04:36.05] [04:37.99]For love did it come for me [04:43.07] [04:44.02]Cause it feels like there's a big one round the corner [04:49.48] [04:52.20]The way the day begins [04:55.42] [04:58.56]Decides the shade of everything [05:01.44] [05:03.19]But the way it ends depends on if you're home [05:07.74] [05:09.68]For every soul a pillow at a window please [05:15.07] [05:15.88]In the modern Rome where folk are nice to Yoko