我有都市情结，喜欢高楼大厦砖石街道地铁人群，我当然喜欢城市绿地BTW。

最近Alicia Keys出新专了，当然是能多早听就多早听，恰好的是收录的这首《Empire State of Mind Pt.2: Broken Down》。

有心人当然早就听过这个旋律了，今年的VMA上已上演过Jay-Z大叔和AK的合作，那是双人合作版本的《Empire State of Mind》；然后不久之前大热美剧《Gossip Girl》中也响起了这段博命一般的段落。

新专《The Element of Freedom》封面如下：

省事起见，将两首歌都贴上：

首先是Jay-Z大叔主导的这个版本：

然后是Alicia Keys自己的这个版本比较郁闷，虾米网的试听是不对的，只好贴个链接：

http://www.haoting.com/htmusic/400879ht.htm

歌词如下：

Ooohh New York x2

Grew up in a town that is famous as the place of movie scenes
Noise is always loud, there are sirens all around and the streets are mean
If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere, that’s what they say
Seeing my face in lights or my name in marquees found down on Broadway

Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams
Baby, I’m from New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let’s hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!

On the avenue, there ain’t never a curfew, ladies work so hard
Such a melting pot, on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God
Hail a gypsy cab, takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge
Some will sleep tonight with a hunger for more than an empty fridge

I’m gonna make it by any means, I got a pocketful of dreams
Baby, I’m from New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These street will make you feel brand new

Big lights will inspire you
Let’s hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!

One hand in the air for the big city,
Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty
No place in the world that can compare
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

In New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let’s hear it for New York, New York, New Yoooork!

这歌词可是一看就令人感同身受，是的，谁不向往走在聚光灯下？

原谅我也就是一个怀着Big City Dream的Country Girl嘛～

怎么说，只能说我们的AK真的越来越大气了。

最后附赠The Cranberries的《New New York [#]》，收录于千年精选集中的三首新歌中的一首。其实那三首我最喜欢的是《Star》啦～

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