Snow Patrol – NYC

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Is this on
I am so too
I could take you there
But I don't know how to get there

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Track duration: 04:27

"NYC" as written by Mcclelland/lightbody/quinn

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    General Comment:Great song!!! I think this is about Gary's first "experience", being in bed and having absolutely no clue what to do.
    Flag suede67on May 26, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This song makes me think of 911. I think of that alot. It is just so terrible what happened to the people there. All that tragedy and for what? For money. Money is no good unless you do the right things with it. I wish everyone had the ability to follow their dreams. It would be a much happier place if we could.... I know this song came out before but there is something so magical about people that help others. I respect those people so very much.
    Flag perhapspsychologyon January 10, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Or maybe it is just a love song... Check out the lyrics for When you're right, you're right... Maybe it's I'm so in love with you too... or I want to be so in love with you too... Where are the men in the world that write this stuff? Oh to be in love would be nice...
    Flag perhapspsychologyon January 09, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:My boyfriend decided that this song was, "Quite repetative", aren't we all though? I really love this song. It grows on you. There is just something about it that hangs with you like the air. It's funny... everyone is so unique. We are all abused and lost and in love and obsessed and dying and living and growing and becoming something or someone. It's really just amazing. Some of my posts are down trodden... all I really mean by them is let the world vibe. Flow. Just let yourself flow and no matter what it will be alright. I've met soooo many people in my life that I didn't really like, but I loved them all. I see the beauty in things. Even in the bad. I just wish we all could've been smiling. Oh, repetition... just like life... the day in and day out.... we are all afraid and we are all dealing with and we all have our own opinions and in a perfect world we would all be able to grow change and deal without anyone expecting too much from us. No one ever knows what other people know... magic.... this song is magic... I've got my microphone, who am I? Is this on? Am I on? God... life is sooo fucking beautiful... I just wish we gave people the opportunity to fully be themselves... technology will eat us alive if we don't eat it up first.... Haha... This song is empowering and degrading... I don't know a damn thing and that's what makes life beautiful... that's why we need education though... if people knew how to say what they wanted to say then we would all be a LOT better off, no?
    Flag perhapspsychologyon January 08, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Frankly, I think all it's saying is that somebody is lonely in this world. It's just funny because NYC is full of people and it moves so fast. However, people are still lonely... It's like you meet some people in this world that leave you so much emptier then you were when you first met them. The cd is good though, the title means something to the effect of I can be whatever I want to be when no one else is around. What an epedemic problem that one is.
    Flag perhapspsychologyon January 07, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:It's a song about being at a complete loss for words and having no idea how to deal with or approach someone or something. It reminds me of the scene from a Scanner Darkly (book or movie) where they make an Ayn Rand reference when dealing with death. Or maybe it's an I'm so happy or just... I think this song comes from the chest it is simply just THAT feeling, that feeling that comes from the base of your sternum and just fills up the space between your skin and lungs... I can't figure this crazy shit out and it's maddening... that's how I'm beginning to feel about this song. It's maddening because it could be anything, kind of like life. It could be anything... never will we know.
    Flag perhapspsychologyon January 07, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I came home and this song was on my computer a day or two ago. It was the strangest thing. I have never heard it before. Anyway... I just think this song is someone being at a complete loss for words. Like when someone doesn't really know what to think and it's just like I give up but then on the other hand they're like well geeze... It's like that look parents give their kids when they have no idea what to do. That little smile/brow furrow/head shake. Then again... it could be I am so lost too, or I'm so sorry too, or I'm so sick of this place too, or I'm so afraid of getting stuck here too, or I'm so just--- lol
    Flag perhapspsychologyon January 07, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I know these are, according to the album, the correct lyrics, but there is another lyric that goes;
    'I could take you there but I don't know where to go'
    However, on the album it doesn't say this either, but it's pretty obvious so I'm not sure why it's not mentioned.

    PleasePleasePlease, her name is Isobel Campbell, I think.
    Flag Tamuon June 19, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i bloody love this song! Deff one of my fav snow patrol songs ... beats the crap outta chasing cars, thats for sure!
    the female singer in this song has a beautiful voice.. anyone know who she is??
    Flag PleasePleasePleaseon May 25, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:player on the flight over from London to New York whilst I'm working over here for a few months. It enhanced the listening experience
    Flag Michael Jackasson March 02, 2006   Link

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