A Map of New York

Think of each plaza pier and public park

How many sit there empty lonely dark

Think of it for tomorrow's sake

Think of how you and I can make our mark

You and I

We can draw a brand-new grid

Everything that you dreamed of as a kid

Give it a year and go with me

Soon enough you'll say "Look what we two did"

You've always had the right dream

We've always made a tight team

Now at last you're back

Exactly where you ought to be

So let's make a map of New York you and me

(New Yorker:)

Twenty-two Reade a building sidewalk shade

(Another New Yorker:)

Now a memory that for Beth will never fade

(Beth:)

And I could be planning city sites

Where memories just like this one might be made

(Writer:)

Thirty-three Bond

Where I wrote my first book

(Chef:)

Greenwich and Moore

Where I learend how to cook

(Young Woman:)

The Center Street courts

I intern there

(Beth:)

The joy of this job is everywhere I look

(Messenger:)

That market was my first job

(Elena:)

That diner was my worst job

(Those Six:)

And everywhere around me are these lives I left behind

(Foreman:)

The Tunnel where I laid rail

(Realtor:)

The co-op where I made my first sale

(All Eight:)

They make a map of New York in my mind

(Anne:)

Put a sticker on the map where you landed that first day

(Kate:)

Put a pin on the bridge

(Lucas:)

On the train

(Anne:)

On J F K

(Beth:)

On the street where I swore I'd afford a place some day

(Kate Anne Lucas & New Yorkers:)

Ev'ry avenue and place

Ev'ry building ev'ry face

Of the lovers and the friends

The beginnings and the ends

Make a map of NYC

Where I've been and who I'll be

And you'll find me

(Liz:)

And you're feeling adrift alone apart

Then suddenly life will somehow start

And a map of New York is written on your heart

(New Yorkers:)

On your heart

On your heart

(Beth:)

I'm too old for all that ****

To be told I'm selling out

Then again all these years

Did I lose what I'm about

On the street in the cold

It's so hard to fight the doubt

(Beth & New Yorkers:)

Then you hear the tunnel hum

With a rain about to come

And you surface to the street

And you fall into the beat

You can trace a line to me

On that map of NYC

Right where I should be

(Stephen:)

Think of how human life will ebb and flow

(Stephen & Beth:)

People and how they'll come and how they'll go

Remember the things we hoped and planned

(Stephen:)

Remember them and believe them and you'll know

(Beth & Stephen:)

We'll know

(Beth Stephen & New Yorkers:)

We never walk a straight line

We never check a street sign

(Beth & Stephen:)

But it's in the detour that we truly find our way

(Stephen & New Yorkers:)

We always know the way home

(Beth & New Yorkers:)

As long as we can stay here we're home

(Beth:)

And we make a map of work

(New Yorkers:)

Love and loss and life

(Stephen:)

And we make a map of play

(New Yorkers:)

We find our way

(Stephen & New Yorkers:)

And we make a map of New York ev'ry day

(New Yorker:)

Ending the night at 23rd and Third

(Another New Yorker:)

Liz and her date

Who's hanging on each word