[Verse 1]
85 blocks
On the rocks
Taking my time
Watch it unwind
Used to be black
Wish Apollo was back
James Brown's looking down at the Harlem hipsters
Cigarettes butts
Ten tow trucks
Japs in gold
Watch it unfold
Jogging bankers
Capitalist wankers
Sweating bullets of green
Through strawberry fields

[Pre-Chorus]
I'm not taking a cab
Not taking a subway
When I leave the bar
I'd rather gum on my shoe
I'm walking my shame off
So I gotta walk far

[Chorus]
New York means hitting the skids
I love this holy misfit
Here's where the weirdos unite
Trying to revive the good inside
New York means hitting the skids
I love this holy misfit
Here's where the weirdos unite
Trying to revive the good inside
[Verse 2]
85 blocks
Wearing striped socks
Broadway hags
Fake handbags
Koreatown
Cobblestone grounds
Cops eat donuts
Under the rainbow
The crust punks' bailed
And left us with poseurs
Giving hobos a dime
Stop for gin and lime
Children of rockstars
With zipper doc martens
They're paying the bills
High on mom and dad's pills

[Pre-Chorus]
I'm not taking a cab
Not taking a subway
When I leave the bar
I'd rather gum on my shoe
I'm walking my shame off
So I gotta walk far
[Chorus]
New York means hitting the skids
I love this holy misfit
Here's where the weirdos unite
Trying to revive the good inside

[Bridge]
85 blocks
Don't look at my watch
The suns coming up
Over ground zero
Seaport seagulls
They'll pick at my bones
85 blocks
Just to get to the water
85 blocks
Just to get to the water
85 blocks
85 blocks

[Chorus]
New York means hitting the skids
I love this holy misfit
Here's where the weirdos unite
Trying to revive the good inside
New York means hitting the skids
I love this holy misfit
Here's where the weirdos unit
Trying to revive the good inside