Missing a Twin
music S.Carver/J.Flinter Lyrics J.Flinter ©2003

verse 1
The Sixties Radio Row was charged with seedy stores
The writing’s in the neon signs.
The Rockefeller brainchild to bring back self-belief
and halt the city’s decline.
Minoru Yamasaki hatched a monumental plan
the architect of choice
Create a living symbol of the humanity in men
and give peace a stronger voice.
And the pride will unite us.
chorus 1
New York - Is the statue of Liberty.
New York - The view of the Hudson from the Brooklyn Bridge.
New York - A Woody Allen movie, a jog in Central Park.
New York - The NYPD Blue, the Jets and the Sharks.
New York - The sun didn’t shine as the walls caved in,
New York - the Manhattan skyline is missing its twin
New York - The core had been shaken, through different beliefs.
New York - We won’t be held prisoner in the land of the free
verse 2
August 5th ‘66 the towers began their tale
110 stories high.
A modern metal monolith crafted by 10,000 men
headstones for the 60 who died.
Icons of high ideals built on hopes and dreams
now trades in stocks and shares.
The money mountains slash the sky and fund the great divide
between paupers and millionaires.
Has the tide all but turned us ?
verse 3
Busy people going about their business
just like before.
Milling around in cabs and trains, above the ground the suicide planes
prepare for war.
Everything they did that day was down on DV-Cam
and sent across the world.
Paralysed in comfy chairs but had anybody listened
to what we’d been told.
And we cried heaven help us
chorus 2
Yankee stripes, Giant Blues,
Madison, Avenue,
Theodore, Franklin. D.
Guggenheim, Bronx and Queens.
Empire State, Wall Street Crash,
Greenwich Village, Yellow Cabs,
Gershwin Tunes in Times Square,
The Big Apple take us there.
chorus 2 + chrous 1