we walked down the street as the snow started falling stamping our feet all the taxi cab crawling you said im so cold i cant remember my name and i said the same he took her photo and said he adored her a new york martini it literally floored her and we played miss america over again and again and again oh oh the light was a new york christmas baby oh it was the way it should be done oh we saw the sights tinsel and lights looking down the barrel of a gun now years have gone by and were all so much older the winters gone warmer than last year s got colder and we all have some things about how the time goes that we rather not know oh the light was a new york christmas baby snowflakes like diamonds in our hair and we watched them all sparkle and fall something almost true was in the air yeah that was a new york christmas baby yeah that was the way it was back then oh we saw the sights tinsel and lights you kissed in the snow and that was when i feel in love with christmas once again