What More Do I Need

Once I hated this city

Now it can@t get me down

Slushy humid and gritty

What a pretty town

What thought I could be duller

More depressing less gay

Now my favourite colour

Is grey

A wall of rain as it turns to sleet

The lack of sun on a one-way street

I love the grime all the time

And what more do I need?

My window pane has a lovely view:

An inch of sky and a fly or two

Why I can see half a tree

And what more do I need?

The dusk is thick and it@s galling;

It simply can@t be excused

In winter even the falling snow looks

Used

My window pane may not give much light

But I see you so the view is bright

If I can love you I@ll pay the dirt no heed!

With your love what more do I need?

Someone shouting for quiet

Someone starting a brawl

Down the block there@s a riot

And I@ll buy it all!

Listen now I@m ecstatic

Hold me close and be still

Hear the lovely pneumatic

Drill!

A subway train thunders through the Bronx

A taxi horn on the corner honks

But I adore ev@ry roar

And what more do I need?

I hear a crane making street repairs

A two-ton child running wild upstairs

Steam pipes bangsirens clang

And what more do I need?

The neighbours yell in the summer

The landlord yells in the fall

So loud I can@t hear the plumber

Pound the wall

An aeroplane roars across the bay

But I can hear you as clear as day:

You said you love me

Above the sound and speed

With your love

What more do I need?