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She came to the city with just her nameAnd a suitcase full of magazinesAnd the daily news and the small town bluesAnd a jar full of cold creamAnd the nights were hot and the bed was hardBut she had a nice view of the navy yardThe old men on the stoop played with playing cardsAnd the folks back home sent their best regardsShe came to the city, just seventeenGonna be a star of stage and screenAnd why does that old man have to be so meanHe said, ?You can't go home 'til the floors are clean?The boys in the car lot with muted jeansThey lean out of the shadows And they call her nameThe bird lady says it's a crying shameShe dances all night with the king of SpainInto the night, that's where I'm goingDarling, I can't stay longWhere ever warmer winds are blowingThat's where I belongSongtexteThose uptown girls with their cigarette casesAnd their beach brown skin and their greyhound facesThey congregate in terrace gardensAnd sharpen their nails for the boat of partiesThose downtown girls with the milk white skinAnd their charcoal eyes and their razor trimsStudious looks of disaffection You know, they never look in her directionAnd those color treated mamacitas always dressed to killAnd whore their bodies out over the windowsillThere's a boy on the corner with a pocketful of pillsAnd how are you gonna get your prescription filledAnd how you gonna pay your doctors billsI've got a thousand cures for a thousand illsIt's favors for favors and it's sinners and saviorsIt's suspicious behavior from the downstairs neighborsYou mind your own business, the sooner the laterYou wind up a witness for some public crusaderInto the night, that's where I'm goingDarling, I can't stay longWhere ever warmer winds are blowingThat's where I belongThe rumble of traffic on midnight streetsThe girls in heels and the cops on the vThe quiet that comes just before the stormAnd the lost souls lurching into human formShe cross the bridge in the dead of nightJust to see the city fill up with lightElectric eyes were burning bright From the lowest low to the highest highShe came to the city with just her nameAnd a suitcase full of magazinesNow she's down in Chinatown with a penknife keyTrying to get a good price on a silver ringThere's always a fee that you have to payWhether it's worth it, well, who's to sayAnd are you gonna go or are you gonna stayIs it even up to you any wayBut into the night, that's where I'm goingDarling, I can't stay longWhere ever warmer winds are blowingThat's where I belongInto the night, that's where I'm goingDarling, I can't stay longWhere ever warmer winds are blowingThat's where I belong Aus Songtexte Mania