and this is one New Yorker that totally relates to this song...
and just to bust chops, Carne, everyone knows that any native New Yorker never relates to any music by that New Jerseyite, Bruce Springstein!!!
I think Stevie's subtleness in this song means more to me than any of the other more blatant songs I've heard. There was a time when Stevie was criticized for being too lyrically vague and artsy, and unable to be real by drawing upon her personal experiences when writing her lyrics and now she is criticized as self-indulgent for doing the opposite...
"This coastline is glittering
Like a diamond snake
In a black sky" and I actually used this quote last weekend when we took our close friends who live in Italy into Manhattan for Chinese. It is the wife's first time visiting the US (she's french) and she was amazed by the twinkling lights of the city as we crossed over the Hudson...