"I Mean Business" lyrics

Growing up across the Hudson, I stared out of my window
Every night at the Manhattan skyline
Reading the Sunday Times with a light under the covers
I dreamed of having my own byline
So I studied my butt off at Rutgers
Ran the student gazette and got my Honor's degree
I got a shoebox apartment in Bushwick
It can barely fit a futon, but it works for me

I'm ready to work, I'm hot off the press
I'm gonna write my own ticket to success
I gotta find my feet and show this city I mean business

I mean business, oh yeah
I mean business, yes, I do
I mean business, New York City
I mean business, oh yeah
I mean business, yes, I do
I mean business, New York City
I'ma work
I'ma work my way back to you

Walking East Dunford and 2nd, it's like all of a sudden
Every light is turning green for me now
I got my good-luck notebook for my interview this morning
'Cause I'm [?] to be now
Sure, this magazine is only for fashion
But it'll cover my rent and get my foot in the door
And my brilliant adapting will soon be resulting
In a monumental story they cannot ignore

I'm ready to work, I'm hot off the press
I'm gonna write my own ticket to success
I'm gonna find my feet and show this city I mean business

I mean business, oh yeah
I mean business, yes, I do
I mean business, New York City
I mean business, oh yeah
I mean business, yes, I do
I mean business, New York City
I'ma work
I'ma work my way back to you

By the time that I'm twenty-four
The New Yorker will promote me
And before I turn twenty-eight
Every late night show will quote me
Pulitzer Prize winner Andy Sachs
This wasn't corruption, I'm bringing the facts
Like Gloria Steinem in her pride
Changing the world one page at a time

I mean business, oh yeah
I mean business through and through
I mean business, New York City
I mean business, oh yeah
Serious business through and through
So we're in business, New York City
'Cause I, oh, yes, I
I got work to do

I got work to do
I got work to do
I got work to do
I got work to do