Hudson died in Hudson Bay

The water took its victim’s name

Now rivers rise toward riverside

To change their names again

A stranger walked in through the door

Said, “All apartments are pre-war”

We laughed and asked him for his name

He stayed until the end

We watched the Germans play the Greeks

He mocked the 99-year lease

Our fathers signed

Which I declined to try and comprehend

Over and over again

All these never-ending visions

Over and over again

Like a prize that’s changing hands

The time has come

The clock is such a drag

All you who change your stripes

Can wrap me in the flag

The legendary wooden gate

That first established real estate

Is lost to time

Like other crimes

That won this pleasant land

CHORUS

Hudson died in Hudson Bay

But I was born on Sutton Place

The rising tide helped me decide

To change my name again

Some men tend to linger on

And some make haste from Babylon

Some will roam their ruined home

Rejoicing to the end

CHORUS

The lines are drawn, the map is such a drag

All you who change your stripes can wrap me in the flag