Midnight Strikes Too Soon

Kathy's hailing a cab like she's hailing a storm

Into the streets of New York City

Once we're inside, it's a carnival ride

That brings the white-knuckled kind to dizzy

She takes me up on her rooftop

Framed by a backdrop of water tanks and chimneys

She's wrapped 'round a cigarette, lecturing etiquette

While I look into windows beneath me

We took in Saturday and it was medicine

And when nighttime came, the skyline just swallowed the moon

Kathy lays the blame on Thomas Alva Edison (Edison)

And sixty million light bulbs telling New York that it's noon

Oh, midnight strikes too soon

She says in New York City, they throw their wishes into wells

'Cause you can't see a star unless one hit you when it fell

And if even you caught one, I say, who could you tell

In this whole damn town to believe you?

She smiled like a cat would to a pigeon on the roof

She says, "I look into windows for universal truth"

And we drank in the moment, whiskey hundred proof

"If Orion fell," she said, "I'd tell you"

And the view from the roof could make your head just spin

It was like holding up the world in a tablespoon

And we drank it down, every light in town

Like the sweetest, kindest medicine

I made my wish on a satellite dish

But still midnight strikes too soon

Oh, midnight strikes too soon

Kathy never seems to slow down

She's a hurricane working a skyscraper town

She says I'm suburban bound

But the truth is I live on the highway

I come to the city for the solace of a roof

But every window tells a story in cold hard truth

As the world spins beneath me, I'm asking for proof

That I'm living my life in my own way

Before time just has its own say

Midnight strikes too soon

Hey, midnight

Midnight strikes too soon

Yeah, midnight

Midnight strikes too soon

Hey, midnight

Midnight strikes too soon