You're sending me tulips

Mistaken for lilies

You give me your lip

After punching me silly

You turned my head

Till it rolled down the brain drain

If I had any sense now

I wouldn't want it back again

New Amsterdam

It's become much too much

Till I have the possession

Of everything she touches

Till I step on the brakes to

Get out of her clutches

Till I speak double dutch to

A real double duchess

Down on the mainspring

Listen to the tick tock Clock

All the faces that move

In on your block

Twice shy and dog tired

Because you've been bitten

Everything you say now sounds

Like it was ghost-written

New Amsterdam

It's become much too much

Till I have the possession

Of everything she touches

Till I step on the brakes to

Get out of her clutches

Till I speak double dutch to

A real double duchess

Back in London they'll take you

To heart after a little while

Though I look right at home

I still feel like an exile

Somehow I found myself

Down at the dockside

Thinking of the old days

Of Liverpool and Rotherhithe

The transparent people

Who live on the other side

Living a life that is almost like suicide

New Amsterdam it's become much too much

Till I have the possession

Of everything she touches

Till I step on the brakes

To get out of her clutches

Till I speak double dutch to

A real double duchess

New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello & The Attractions