I'm not afraid
Of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard
I'm just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company

I never thought you were a fool
But darling look at you
You gotta stand up straight
Carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere
Baby

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I will not forsake
The colours that you bring
But the nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted
By the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears
And through your eyes I can see

And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now
My oh my

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
Oh love look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm till you discover how deep
I wasn't jumping
For me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along the stony pass

It's just a moment
This time will pass

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
But there's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
The sky falls
And you feel like
It's a beautiful day

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if it doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light and
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have
You don't need it now
What you don't know
You can feel it somehow
What you don't have
You don't need it now
You don't need it now
Don't need it now

It's a beautiful day

Soul, goal
The goal is soul
Goal, goal, goal
The goal is soul
Sing it

Beautiful day

In New York freedom feels like
Too many choices
In New York I found a friend
To drown out the other voices
Voices on the cell phone
Voices from home
Voices of the hard sell
Voices down the stairwell
In New York
Just got a place in New York

In New York summers get hot
Well into the hundreds
You can't walk around the block
Without a change of clothing
Hot as a hairdryer in your face
Hot as a handbag and a can of mace
New York
I just got a place in New York

In New York you can forget
Forget how to sit still
Tell yourself you will stay in
But it's down to Alphaville

New York, New York
New York, New York
New York, New York
New York, New York

The Irish have been coming there for years
Feels like they own the place
They got the airport, city hall, concrete
Asphalt, they even got the police
Irish, Italian, Jews and Hispanics
Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew
Living happily not like me and you
That's where I lost you
NewYork

New York, New York
New York
New York, New York
In New York
In New York
In New York

In New York I lost it all
To you and your vices
Still I'm staying on to figure out
My mid wife crisis
I hit an iceberg in my life
But yeah I'm know I'm still afloat
You lose your balance
Lose your wife
In the queue for the lifeboat

You got to put the women
And children first
But you've got an unquenchable thirst
For New York

New York, New York
New York
New York, New York

In the stillness of the evening
When the sun has had its day
I thought I heard you whisper
Come away child

New York

New York, New York

As long as the night is coloured
Blue and black
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

As long as you're on your knees
And she's not on her back
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

Avenue Atlantico
Seventeen-o-two
She's cocoa butter
Baby, she's the glue

She's got the baby
At her breast
She knows big girls are best

Oh mama, mama, mama, ma
Oh mama, mama, mama, ma

I'm gonna change like the weather
Hot to cold
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
She keeps it all together
She's got the mother load
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

She feels it
Every sensation
She's got a smile
Like salvation
She's got a baby
At her breast
She knows big girls are best

Oh mama, mama, mama, ma
Sexy mama, mama, mama, ma
Oh mama, mama, mama, ma
Sexy mama, mama, mama, ma

She's elliptical
Also political
All so spiritual
Not superficial
Yeah, she's tropical
Yes, she's illogical
Those little girls are a pest
Big girls are the best

Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh
Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

As long as the night is coloured
Blue and black
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

As long as you're on your knees
And she's not on her back
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

She can taste every sensation
She's got a smile
Like salvation
She got a baby
A baby at her breast
She walk like she talk
Big girls are best

Big Girls

Oh mama, mama, mama, ma
Sexy mama, mama, mama, ma
Oh mama, mama, mama, ma
Sexy mama, mama, mama, ma

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
But there's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
The sky falls
And you feel like
It's a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me, love
I know I'm not a hopeless case

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if it doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
The sky falls
And you feel like
It's a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

It's a beautiful day
The sky falls
And you feel like
It's a beautiful day

What you don't have
You don't need it now
What you don't know
You can feel it somehow
What you don't have
You don't need it now
You don't need it now
You don't need it now

Beautiful day