What More Do I Need - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sarah Brightman

Once I hated this city

Now it can’t get me down

Slushy, humid and gritty

What a pretty town

What, thought I, could be duller

More depressing, less gay?

Now my favorite color

Is gray

A wall of rain as it turns to sleep

The lack of sun on a one-way street

I love the grime all the time

And what more do I need?

My window pane has a lovely view

An inch of sky and a fly or two

Why, I can see half a tree

And what more do I need?

The dusk is thick and it’s galling

It simply can’t be excused

In winter even the falling snow looks

Used

My window pane may not give much light

But I see you, so the view is bright

If I can love you, I’ll pay the dirt no heed

With your love, what more do I need?

Someone shouting for quiet

Someone starting a brawl

Down the block there’s a riot

And I’ll buy it all

Listen, now I’m ecstatic

Hold me close and be still

Hear the lovely pneumatic

Drill

A subway train thunders through the Bronx

A taxi horn on the corner honks

But I adore every roar

And what more do I need?

I hear a crane making street repairs

A two ton child running wild upstairs

Steam pipes bang, sirens clang

And what more do I need?

The neighbors yell in the summer

The landlord yells in the fall

So loud I can’t hear the plumber

Pound the wall

An aeroplane roars across the bay

But I can hear you as clear as day

You said you loved me

Above the sound and speed

With your love, what more do I need?