Never Make It Home

(Sean Sullivan)

An ode to New York City, as well as to the hometowns from which many a New Yorker moved, Never Make It Home is melancholy, but hopeful, song about the trade-offs between leaving and staying.

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I don’t know If I’m ready for the city But the city isn’t ready for me I packed a couple bags Of Minnesota manners And now I’m gonna teach ‘em to the street New York’s got its own way But I can’t run, I’ve gotta stay And everybody knows what Frank Sinatra said But it’s just as hard to make it any place (Chorus) Ohhhhhhhh, No I might never make it home But what if I can take it with me? (End Chorus) When the subway comes It sounds like a demon Brakes screaming like they’re gonna bust And I fly through the tunnels In the guts of a city that inhaled me Like a speck of dust Standing in the lights of Times Square A pleasant sense of danger in the air I tell ‘em back home about the people that I meet But they say it’s a jungle out there (Chorus) Staring out the window Of my seventh floor apartment I can hear the late-night patter on the street The city keeps beating Like an artist’s restless heart--I guess it’s true It never goes to sleep Off of Battery Park There’s a woman thinking she’s a landmark She’s carrying a torch for liberty and light But she’s all alone standing in the dark (Chorus)

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