Blondie – Union City Blue

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Oh, oh, what are we gonna do?
Union, Union, Union City blue
Tunnel to the other side
It becomes daylight
I say he's mine

Oh power, passion plays a double hand
Union, Union Union City man
Arrive, climb up four flights
To the orange side
Rearrange my mind
In turquoise Union, Union, Union City blue
Skyline, passion, Union City blue

Power, passion plays a double hand
Union, Union, Union City man
I say he's mine
I have a plan
I say he's my Union City man

Oh, oh, what are we gonna do?
Union, Union, Union City blue

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Track duration: 03:20

"Union City Blue" as written by Nigel Harrison Deborah Harry

Lyrics © CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP

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    General Comment:Quite simple and very poignant. Deborah is singing about being that girl from NJ looking over and being seduced by the NYC skyline...big city dreams. Power, passion plays a doublehand and how that relates to leaving her "union city man"--her ordinary life in Jersey--"What are we gonna do?" Deborah has talked about the affect NYC had on her as a young girl many times.
    Flag batongalon May 22, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I grew up in Union City, NJ where Debbie Harry worked for a brief period in the mid-1970's as a go-go dancer in a nightclub (which was among many that had gambling going on in back rooms). The area was infamous for it's corruption.
    Flag johnnysainon May 16, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:It's about a woman in Manhattan who is in love with a man in Union City, NJ, just over the river. She takes the tunnel to visit him, but their worlds are so different, she being a professional or a musician or something in Manhattan, while he works in a factory or shipyard of some sort (wearing blue coveralls) in Union City, that their love is doomed. Or at least troubled.

    Union City is also home to the US's biggest annual Passion Play, so they cleverly allude to that. Maybe the dude's Cuban (big Cuban town, apparently), so maybe that's a problem too.

    Or maybe it relates to the plot of the movie "Union City," which I haven't seen. Anyone?
    Flag karnasauron October 09, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Brilliant.
    Flag spunkychickon February 16, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Union City is in New Jersey. It is on the New Jersey Transit rail link. The map shows that the color of said link is ORANGE. Hence, "To the orange side",
    So the guy is in Union City, and she is off to see him from either Hoboken or Newark Penn Station. Rest of it, go figure yourselves, the video shows the skyline of NY and some weird sh@t dancing.
    Flag peterspider69on September 18, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I agree: this song should have been an explosive hit.
    Far superior to "Dreaming" or "The Tide Is High".
    Flag Major Valoron August 16, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:it was written for the movie "Union City Blue." deborah harry was also in the movie.
    Flag funshineon May 01, 2004   Link
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    General Comment:I think this is about Union City, New Jersey, which is across Hudson River from New York City. Maybe about a guy she had a relationship with from there?
    Flag DanVitaleRockson June 18, 2003   Link
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    General Comment:Greatest of all blondie tracks - powerfull song - should have been there biggest hit - have no idea what its about though.
    Flag Lemonheadon September 16, 2002   Link

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