New York Minute (song)
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"New York Minute" is a song written by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, and Jai Winding. Henley originally recorded it for his 1989 album The End of the Innocence. The single was a #2 hit on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart the following year, although it reached only #48 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song was covered by the Eagles (of whom Don Henley was a key member) on the Hell Freezes Over album and DVD, as well as Herbie Hancock on his 1995 album The New Standard. In 1998 the danish singer Sanne Salomonsen covered the song on an album of the same name, together with Chris Minh Doky.
It is featured in The West Wing episode "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail," a line from the song. It is also featured in the Friends episode "The One with Two Parts, Part Two".
[edit] Lyrics
Harry got up
Dressed all in black
Went down to the station
And he never came back
They found his clothing
Scattered somewhere down the track
And he won’t be on Wall Street
In the morning
He had a home
The love of a girl
But men get lost sometimes
As years unfurl
One day he crossed some line
And he was too much in this world
But I guess it doesn't matter anymore
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
Things can get pretty strange
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
Lying here in the darkness
I hear the sirens wail
Somebody’s going to emergency
Somebody’s going to jail
If you find somebody to love in this world
You better hang on tooth and nail
The wolf is always at the door
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
Things can get pretty strange
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
And in these days
When darkness falls early
And people rush home
To the ones they love
You better take a fool’s advice
And take care of your own
One day they’re here
Next day they’re gone
I pulled my coat around my shoulders
And took a walk through the park
The leaves were falling around me
The groaning City in the gathering dark
On some solitary rock
A desperate lover made his mark
“Baby I’ve changed. Please come back”
What the head makes cloudy
The heart makes clear
The days were so much brighter
In the time when she was here
But I know there’s somebody somewhere
Make these dark clouds disappear
Until that day I have to believe
I believe, believe
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
Things can get pretty strange
In a New York minute
Everything can change
In a New York minute
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