New York's not my home

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Well things were spinin round me and all my
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thoughts were cloudy and I had begun to doubt 
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all the things that were me,   been in so ma-ny 
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places you know I've run so   ma-ny races and 
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looked in-to the empty faces of the people of 
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the night and something is just not right.  
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Cause I know that I gotta get out of here I'm so 
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alone   don't you know that I gotta get out of  
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here cause New York's not my home

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Though all the streets are crowded there's 
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something strange a-bout it, I lived there bout 
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a year and I never once felt at home. I thought 
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I'd make the big time, I learned a lot of 
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lessons awful quick and now I'm tellin you that 
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they were not the nice kind. And it's been so 
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long since I have felt fine. 


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That's the reason that I gotta get out of here, 
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I'm so a-lone.   Don't you know that I gotta get 
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out of here, cause New York's not my home.(repeat)