Some Folks Like to Get Away Take a Holiday From the Neighborhood Hop a Flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm Takin' a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line I'm in a New York State of Mind Seen All Those Movie Stars And Their Fancy Cars and Their Limousines Been High in the Rockies, Under the Evergreens But I Know What I'm Needin' And I Don't Wanna Waste More Time I'm in a New York State of Mind It Was So Easy Livin' Day By Day Out of Touch With the Rhythm and Blues But Now I Need a Little Give and Take The New York Times and the Daily News Comes Down to Reality And It's Fine With Me Cause I've Let It Slide I Don't Care If It's Chinatown Or Up On Riverside I Don't Have Any Reasons I've Left Them All Behind I'm in a New York State of Mind I Don't Have Any Reasons Cause Left Them All Behind I'm in a New York, I'm in a New York State of Mind...