The Apple Stretching Lyrics - Grace Jones

The sun comes swaggering across the harbor 

And kisses the lady waiting in the narrows 

And she already plenty shaky stands there 

Blushing, clutching the torch of liberty 

Uptown Luigi who don't speak English so good 

Is having an accident 

Backing his dump truck into the fence 

The tin cans go clattering down the lane 

A drowsy bum thinks it's thunder 

And pulls the news over his head to stop the rain 

No, it ain't Judgment Day 

No, it ain't Armageddon 

It's just the apple stretching and yawning 

Just morning 

New York putting its feet on the floor 

It's just the apple stretching and yawning 

Just morning 

New York putting its feet on the floor 

Suburban refugees fleeing the cracked cisterns 

Worm ridden fruit trees stream out Grand Central 

Pleased to be breathing bagels and pollution 

In Time Square new graffiti, old revolutions 

A bag lady is cursing the waiter for giving her a free coffee 

Lucky he's a Jesus freak moonlighting 

At the Acme discount store over in Queens 

The burglar alarm starts to scream 

A cop whips out his gun, fires one and yells, "Freeze!" 

No, it ain't World War IV 

No, it ain't World War IV 

It's just the apple stretching and yawning 

Just morning 

New York putting its feet on the floor 

It's just the apple stretching and yawning 

Just morning 

New York putting its feet on the floor 

Nearby the Hudson a hooker makes a U 

To help a blind man to his pew in the park 

Some long ago home training jars the memory 

The bag lady says, "Thank you" and curtsies 

The herd of beaten tourists limp homeward 

Having bitten off more than they could chew 

Moaning them old big city blues 

Miss Liberty depicts her qualms and grins 

Another subway starts rattling 

And Luigi's cans go clattering down the hill 

No, it ain't some kind of ill wind 

No, it ain't the world coming to an end 

Just the apple stretching and yawning 

Just morning 

New York putting its feet on the floor 

It's just the apple stretching and yawning 

Just morning 

New York putting its feet on the floor 

Sunny New York 

Sunny New York