New Amsterdam

You're sending me tulips mistaken for lilies

You give me a look that the function is silly

You turn my head till it roll down the brain-drain

If i had any sense now i wouldn't want it back again

New amsterdam it's become much too much

'til i have the possession of everything she touches

'til i step on the brake to get out of her clutches

'til i speak double dutch to a real double duchess

Down on the main spring listen to the tick-tock

Collect all the faces that move in your lot

Twice-shy and dog-tied because you've been bitten

Everything you say now sounds like it was ghost-written

New amsterdam it's become much too much

'til i have the possession of everything she touches

'til i step on the brake to get out of her clutches

'til i speak double dutch to a real double duchess

Back in london they'll take you to heart after a little while

Though i look right at home i still feel like an exile

Somehow i found myself down at the dockside

Thinking about the old days of liverpool and rotherhide

Transparent people who live on the other side

Living a life that is almost like suicide

New amsterdam it's become much too much

'til i have the possession of everything she touches

'til i step on the brake to get out of her clutches

'til i speak double dutch to a real double duchess