[Live Performance @ CBS-TV SuperStation PrimeTime Show "Live on Letterman" - Ed Sullivan Theater, Manhattan, NYC - December 2012] <br /><br />Lyrics: <br /><br />Ooh-ooh-ooh, New York <br />Ooh-ooh-ooh, New York <br />Grew up in a town that is famous as a place of movie scenes <br />Noise is always loud <br />There are sirens all around and the streets are mean <br />If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere, that's what they say <br />Seein' my face in lights <br />Or my name in marquees found down on Broadway <br />Even if it ain't all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams <br />Baby, I'm from New York <br />Concrete jungle where dreams are made of <br />There's nothin' you can't do <br />Now you're in New York <br />These streets will make you feel brand-new <br />Big lights will inspire you <br />Hear it for New York, New York, New York <br />On the avenue, there ain't ever a curfew, ladies work so hard <br />Such a meltin' pot <br />On the corner sellin' rock, preachers pray to God <br />Hail a gypsy cab <br />Takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge <br />Someone sleeps tonight with a hunger far more than an empty fridge <br />I'ma make it by any means, I got a pocketful of dreams <br />Baby, I'm from New York <br />Concrete jungle where dreams are made of <br />There's nothin' you can't do <br />Now you're in New York <br />These streets will make you feel brand-new <br />Big lights will inspire you <br />Hear it for New York, New York, New York <br />One hand in the air for the big city <br />Streetlights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty <br />No place in the world that can compare <br />Put your lighters in the air, everybody say, "Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah" <br />In New York <br />Concrete jungle where dreams are made of <br />There's nothin' you can't do <br />Now you're in New York <br />These streets will make you feel brand-new <br />Big lights will inspire you <br />Hear it for New York. <br /><br />Songwriter(s): Shawn C. Carter / Sylvia Robinson / Alexander William Shuckburgh / Bert Keyes / Angela Ann Hunte / Alicia Augello Cook / Janet Andrea Sewell. <br /><br />Empire State of Mind (Part II) Lyrics © Wb Music Corp., Emi April Music Inc., Universal Music Corp., Global Talent Publishing, Carter Boys Music, Emi Foray Music, Roc Nation Music, J Sewell Publishing, Roc International Publishing, Gambi Music Inc., Twenty Nine Black Music, Global Talent Publishing Ltd, Gambi Music Inc., Kmr Ii Gt Publishing Limited, Lellow Prod. Inc., Pen State Academy Music. <br /><br />I do not and will not accept any monetary or other type of compensation for the editing and/or posting/publication of this video. <br />© All rights reserved belong to their respective owners.
