[Verse 1]
G# G#/C
I thank you your letters though they come to me slowly
C#maj7 G# D#
I hear the city's in a panic with its first foot of snow
G# G#/C
I want to answer you quickly having read you again
C#maj7 G# D#
'Cause it sounds like you're dancing with time's favorite friend
[Pre-chorus]
C#maj7 G# D# Fm
And it's everyone's secret and muttered refrain
C#maj7 G# D# Fm
That for all of our trouble we be lonely again
[Chorus]
C#maj7 G#
It's old human nature,
C#maj7 G#
It's cold or it's hot
C#maj7 G#
But if it's snowin' in Brooklyn
C#maj7 G#
You say it's snowin' in Brooklyn
C#maj7 G#
Well if it's snowin' in Brooklyn
D#
I'd say snow's what we've got.
[Solo]
C#maj7 G#
C#maj7 G#
C#maj7 G#
D#
[Verse 2]
G# G#/C
It won't pay you to think that your move caused the break
C#maj7 G# D#
Sweet love has its chemistry, sometimes it don't take
G# G#/C
and it sounds lke you whip yourself, it sounds like you hurt
C#maj7 G# D#
How long do you plan to sweat it in that mouldy hairshirt?
[Pre-chorus]
C#maj7 G# D# Fm
If you're thinking of coming back, then come back you will
C#maj7 G# D# Fm
If you're afraid of them talking, friend, They're all talking still
[Chorus]
C#maj7 G#
It's old human nature,
C#maj7 G#
It's cold or it's hot
C#maj7 G#
But if it's snowin' in Brooklyn
C#maj7 G#
You say it's snowin' in Brooklyn
C#maj7 G#
Well if it's snowin' in Brooklyn
D#
I'd say snow's what we've got.
[Solo]
G# G#/C C#maj7 G# D#
G# G#/C C#maj7 G# D#
C#maj7 G# D# Fm
C#maj7 G# D# Fm
[Chorus]
C#maj7 G#
It's old human nature,
C#maj7 G#
It's cold or it's hot
C#maj7 G#
But if it's snowin' in Brooklyn
C#maj7 G#
You say it's snowin' in Brooklyn
C#maj7 G#
Well if it's snowin' in Brooklyn
D#
I'd say snow's what we've got.
[Solo]
C#maj7 G#
C#maj7 G#
C#maj7 G#
D#
[Verse 3]
G# G#/C
It'll be cold as the ocean if you don't take the train
C#maj7 G# D#
But I hear if you know where you're going, You can beat half of the pain
G# G#/C
So don't mind but I called your sister and she'd glad take you in
C#maj7 G# D#
You're thirty years old, admit pride doesn't win
[Pre-chorus]
C#maj7 G# D# Fm
Life moves so mysterious with its cute little spins
C#maj7 G# D# Fm
And it's everyone's koan and door to get in
[Chorus]
C#maj7 G#
It's old human nature,
C#maj7 G#
It's cold or it's hot
C#maj7 G#
I think of you often,
C#maj7 G#
I like you a lot
C#maj7 G#
But if it's snowin' in Brooklyn
D#
I'd say snow's what we've got.
[Outro]
C#maj7 G# D# Fm
cause it's everyone's secret and muttered refrain
C#maj7 G#
and for all of our trouble
C#maj7 G#
For all of our trouble
C#maj7 G#
For all of our trouble
D#
We be lonely again.
G# G#/C C#maj7 G# G