CYNDI: I grew up in a working class neighborhood.

Surrounded by what some called ordinary people, but who lived extraordinary lives.

I've always been inspired by these people and their dreams.

In my house, my mom always said if you wanted anything chic or cultured, you could always find it in Manhattan.

So I always found myself dreaming of Manhattan.

I was lucky enough to go to high school there.

Every morning at 8 o'clock, I would wait at the platform of the Manhattan bound "A" Train and a 104th Street, Liberty Avenue.

I'd watch all the people on the way to Wall Street.

They were chic, in their suits and Sunday coats...

Standing there made me feel like I was on my way to a magical place.

A place where a gal from Queens, could lose the 's' and become a queen.

(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) (AT LAST PLAYING) ♪ At last ♪ My love has come along ♪ My lonely days over ♪ And life is like a ♪ Song ♪ Ooh At last ♪ The skies above are blue ♪ My heart was Wrapped up in clover ♪ The night I looked at you ♪ I found a dream ♪ That I could speak to ♪ A dream that I ♪ Could call my own ♪ I found a thrill ♪ To press my cheek to ♪ A thrill that ♪ I have never known ♪ You smile You smile ♪ And then the spell was cast ♪ And here we are in heaven ♪ For you are ♪ Mine (CROWD CHEERING) ♪ At last ♪ (CROWD APPLAUDING) Thank you.

Thank you... Aw...

Thank you, aw...

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

(WHISTLES) When I was a kid, I looked forward to the summers because we would always go out to Long Island and visit my Aunt Gloria, Uncle Frank, and my cousin Linda... Well, you know, I lived in Queen's, and Queen's, where I lived, the backyards were cement, but, you know, they had moved up in the world.

They had grass and a 4-foot pool in the backyard.

(CROWD LAUGHING) This was good.

Anyways, I loved going in there, in the summers... Because, we always had these pool parties, we could, you know, have a blast all day as a little kid.

And then a barbecue, and then, just around the time, when you start to set the marshmallows on fire which, to me, was a delicacy that time.

One of those delicacies... Really burnt marshmallows... And there's always a grown up going, "No, no.

Don't.

Don't burn it, just toast it."

You know.

And... Can I tell you...

Anyway... Around that time, my aunt Gloria would hang her Chinese lanterns up... (CROWD CHEERING) And take out her Latin records.

And these were great album covers... You know, for a... As a little kid, I just remember looking at them and going "Oh!"

"Wow!"

Because they would always have some lady... You know, cocktail dress, dancing wildly, kinda like... You know, so, of course...

I'm her now... (LAUGHS) Now you know... Yeah.

Because I always said, "I wanna be like her."

See what I'm saying?

Anyway...

So, um...

I would, you know...

I would always look at these covers and there was always a guy with flauntsy sleeves, playing the conga drum.

I must confess I...

I eyed his outfit too...

Always...

So you know, every now and again, I'll switch...

But I'm...

But that lady... And then my aunt, of course... You know, she played the music, she'd take the stereo speakers, and she put 'em in each of the bedroom windows with the back pointing out... And we learned the cha-cha... And then when the kids... As kids we got bored and we go into my cousin Linda's room and she'd take out all her 45's, and she'd have, like, you know, Maurice and the Zodiacs... And she'd have, like, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Beach Boys, it was kind of like, and that's the kids' room, it's the kids' music, everybody has a kid's name.

So when I get tired of that, I'd go back out to my aunt again do the cha-cha... You know, then when I get tired of the grownups, I'd went back to my cousin's room...

I'd spend most of the night going back and forth and back and forth...

So, if you stood in the middle, right...

Between my Aunt Gloria's Latin music and my cousin Linda's 45's... That is exactly how this next song sounded.

Hit it!

(LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC PLAYING) Ay, ay ay!

(STAY PLAYING) ♪ Stay ♪ Just a little bit longer ♪ Please, please, please, Please, please ♪ Tell me that you're going to ♪ Come on, stay ♪ Just a little bit longer ♪ Please, please, please, Please, please ♪ Tell me that you're going to ♪ Daddy don't mind, no ♪ Mama don't mind, do you?

♪ If we have another dance ♪ Just one more time ♪ One more time ♪ Stay just a little bit longer ♪ Please, please, please, Please, please ♪ Tell me that you're going to ♪ Won't you place your sweet lips ♪ To mine?

♪ Won't you say you love me ♪ All of the time?

-Si.

-ALL: Si.

-No.

-ALL: No.

-Si.

-ALL: No.

Si!

♪ Come on, stay ♪ Just a little bit longer ♪ Please, please, please, Please, please ♪ Tell me that you're going to ♪ Come on, stay ♪ Come on, come on, Come on stay ♪ Come on, come on, Come on stay ♪ Right now, right now ♪ Come on, come on, Come on stay ♪ Stay ♪ (CROWD CHEERING) Thank you.

Give ahead, Maestro.

(DRUMS BEATING) (I DROVE ALL NIGHT PLAYING) ♪ I had to escape ♪ The city was sticky and cruel ♪ Maybe I should have Called you first ♪ But I was dying to get to you ♪ I was dreaming while I drove ♪ The long straight Road ahead, uh, huh ♪ Could taste your sweet kisse Your arms open wide ♪ This fever for you is Just burning me up ♪ Inside ♪ I drove all night ♪ To get to you ♪ Is that alright ♪ I drove all night ♪ Crept in your room ♪ Woke you from your sleep ♪ To make love to you ♪ Is that alright?

♪ I drove all night ♪ What in this world Keep us from tearing apart ♪ No matter where I go I hear ♪ The beating of your heart ♪ I think about yo When the night is cold and dark ♪ No one can move me The way that you do ♪ Nothing erases the feeling Between me and you ♪ I drove all night ♪ To get to you ♪ Is that alright?

♪ I drove all night ♪ Crept in your room ♪ Woke you from your sleep To make love to you ♪ Is that alright?

♪ I drove all night (GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ Could taste your sweet kisse Your arms open wide ♪ This fever for you is Just burning me up ♪ Inside ♪ I drove all night ♪ To get to you ♪ Is that alright?

♪ I drove all night ♪ Crept in your room ♪ Woke you from your sleep ♪ To make love to you ♪ Is that alright?

♪ I drove all night ♪ (WHISTLES) (CLAPPING) (IF YOU GO AWAY PLAYING) ♪ If you go away ♪ On this summer day ♪ Then you might as well ♪ Take the sun away ♪ All the birds that flew In the summer sky ♪ When our love was new ♪ And our hearts were high ♪ When the day was young ♪ And the night was long ♪ And the moon stood still ♪ For the night bird song ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go awayo ♪ But if you stay ♪ I'll make you a day ♪ Like no day has been ♪ Or will be again ♪ We'll sail on the sun ♪ We'll ride on the rain ♪ We'll talk to the trees ♪ And worship the wind ♪ Then if you go ♪ I'll understand ♪ Leave me just enough love ♪ To hold in my hand ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ Like I know you will ♪ You must tell the world ♪ To stop turning ♪ Till you return to me ♪ If you ever do ♪ Oh what good is love ♪ Without loving you?

♪ I can tell you now ♪ As you turn to go ♪ I'll be dying slowly ♪ Till your next hello ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ But if you stay ♪ I'll make you a night ♪ Like no night has been ♪ Or will be again ♪ I'll sail on you smile ♪ I'll ride on your touch ♪ I'll talk to your eyes ♪ That I love so much ♪ But if you go ♪ I'll understand ♪ Leave me just enough love To hold in my hand ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ Like I know you must ♪ There'll be nothing but ♪ In this world to trust ♪ Just an empty room ♪ Full of empty space ♪ Like the empty look ♪ I see on your face ♪ I'd have been the Shadow of your shadow ♪ If I thought it Might have kept me ♪ By your side ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ If you go away ♪ (CLAPPING) (VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYING) (ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT PLAYING) ♪ All through the night ♪ I'll be awake And I'll be with you ♪ All through the night ♪ This precious time When time is new ♪ Oh, all through the night Today ♪ Knowing that we feel the same ♪ Without saying ♪ We have no past ♪ We won't reach back ♪ Keep with me forward All through the night ♪ And once we start The meter clicks ♪ And it goes running All through the night ♪ Until it ends There is no end ♪ All through the night ♪ Stray cat is crying So stray cat sings back ♪ All through the night ♪ They have forgotten ♪ What by day they lack ♪ Oh ♪ Under those white street lamps ♪ There is a little chance ♪ They may see ♪ We have no past We won't reach back ♪ Keep with me forward All through the night ♪ And once we start The meter clicks ♪ And it goes running All through the night ♪ Until it ends There is no end (VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ Oh ♪ The sleep in your Eyes is enough ♪ Let me be there ♪ Let me stay there awhile ♪ We have no past We won't reach back ♪ Keep with me forward All through the night ♪ And once we start The meter clicks ♪ And it goes running All through the night ♪ Until it ends There is no end ♪ (CROWD APPLAUDING) Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

This one is off of, um...

The At Last CD.

(STRUMS GUITAR) Oh dear, that ain't right, now wait a minute... That's alright.

Oh!

Okay.

Here we go.

Anyway, this is off of the At Last CD, of course, it's not the same version.

But since this was a live DVD and I figured...

It changes all the time when it's live... Why not, and also... You know, some of the medication wore of... Ahem!

(CROWD CHEERING) (LAUGHING) (CROWD LAUGHING) Anyway, this is of the At Last CD , it's called Walk On By.

1... 2... 3... 4... (PLAYING GUITAR) (WALK ON BY PLAYING) ♪ If you see me walking Down the street ♪ And I start to cry ♪ Each time we meet ♪ Walk on by ♪ Walk on by ♪ Make believe ♪ That you don't see the tears ♪ Just let me grieve ♪ In private 'cause Each time I see you ♪ I break down and cry ♪ And walk on by ♪ I just can't get over Losing you ♪ And so if I seem Broken and blue ♪ Walk on by ♪ Walk on by ♪ Foolish pride Is all that I have left ♪ So let me hide ♪ The tears and the sadness You gave me ♪ When you said goodbye ♪ Walk on by ♪ Walk on by ♪ I just can't get over Losing you ♪ And so if I seem Broken and blue ♪ Walk on by ♪ Walk on by ♪ Foolish pride ♪ Is all that I have left So let me hide ♪ The tears and the sadness You gave me ♪ When you said goodbye ♪ Walk on by ♪ Walk on by... by... by ♪ Don't you know you can Walk on by... by... by ♪ Don't you know you can Walk on by ♪ Don't you know you can Walk on walk... walk... walk ♪ Don't you know you can Walk on by♪ (CROWD CHEERING) 2... 3... 4... (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) (GASPS IN THE RHYTHM) (GASPS IN THE RHYTHM) (DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD PLAYING) ♪ Baby, Do you understand me now?

♪ Sometimes I seem a little mad ♪ Oh but, don't you know That no one alive ♪ Can aways be an Angel?

♪ When things go wrong I seem bad ♪ Oh, but ♪ I'm just a soul Whose intentions are good ♪ Oh Lord, pleas Don't let me be misunderstood (CROWD APPLAUDING) ♪ Baby sometimes I'm so carefree ♪ With a joy that's hard to hide ♪ Oh when sometimes ♪ It seems that All I have to do is worry ♪ Then you bound To see my other side ♪ Well, but ♪ I'm just a soul Whose intentions are good ♪ Oh Lord pleas Don't let me be misunderstood ♪ If I seem edgy ♪ I want you to know ♪ That I never mean To take it out on you ♪ Life has its problems ♪ And I have my share ♪ And that's one thing I never want to do ♪ Baby ♪ Don't you know I'm only human ♪ And I have thoughts Like any other one?

♪ Oh when ♪ Sometimes I find myself Alone regretting ♪ Some little thing ♪ Some little simple thing I've done ♪ But you know ♪ I'm just a soul whose intentions are good ♪ Oh Lord, pleas Don't let me be misunderstood ♪ But I'm just a soul Whose intentions are good ♪ Oh Lord, pleas Don't let me be misunderstood ♪ Please don't let me be ♪ Misunderstood ♪ Please don't let me ♪ Please don't let me ♪ Be ♪ Misunderstood ♪ (CROWD CHEERING) Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So, um...

This next song... Feel free to sing along or whatever it is you would do on this next number...

I figured we do the French version...

In honour of the kind of...

I did, like, you know... A more sophisticated thing.

1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3... (SHE BOP PLAYING) ♪ Well I see them every nigh In tight blue jeans ♪ In the pages Of a blue boy magazine ♪ Hey I've been thinking Of a new sensation ♪ I'm picking up Good vibration ♪ She bop ♪ Oh, she bop ♪ He bop, we bop ♪ I bop, you bop, they bop ♪ Be bop, be bop, you bop ♪ I hope He will understand ♪ Ooh, I bop, you bop ♪ They bop, be bop, be bop ♪ Balloon ♪ She bop ♪ Oh, she does, she bop ♪ She bop ♪ She bop, she bop, she bop ♪ (CROWD APPLAUDING) How you doing?

Okay.

Okay?

(STRUMS GUITAR) Um...

I...

I love using an amplifier, anyway, um...

This song... (LAUGHS) There's no room in the truck, it's little...

Okay.

This song... (LAUGHS) I won't even tell you, I can't.

I know they won't put it on it, I hope not.

But the truth is, you know, sometimes, it's like, Beverly Hillbillies, you know...

I'm leaving, I'm packing, it's endless... My boy assistant, "No I think you should take it, take that too..." "Now I've to get another suitcase..." And that and that and that...

There's a trailer behind my tour bus.

It's like the Beverly Hills, it's like Lucy!

Okay.

I'm kidding...

Okay!

This, um...

This next song is the title track off of my Sisters of Avalon CD Hit it!

(SISTERS OF AVALON PLAYING) And 1, 2, 3, 4... ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Felt someone calling me ♪ Into the howling of the wind ♪ I felt the reflection ♪ Of a sound echoing Through my skin ♪ And a distant drum ♪ Rumbling under ground Gently guides me on ♪ Through my wild heart ♪ Whispering to me ♪ The Sisters Of Avalon Sisters Of Avalon ♪ Sisters Of Avalon Sisters Of Avalon ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ She is awakening ♪ In dark swells and mystery ♪ Unbridled nightmares ♪ Powerful and running free ♪ You could still hear her cries ♪ Reverberating Through the trees ♪ For the trampled flowers ♪ The daughters of Eve ♪ The Sisters Of Avalon Sisters Of Avalon ♪ Sisters Of Avalon Sisters Of Avalon ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey Okay, Town Hall... Are you with me?

I said, are you with me?

♪ Brought her in a new white dress ♪ But the stain left an ache On her mother's breast ♪ Now all that's left Are the ghostly steps From a distant corridor ♪ Hey ♪ And a distant drum ♪ Rumbling under ground ♪ Gently guides me on ♪ Through my wild heart ♪ Whispering to me To me... to me ♪ The Sisters Of Avalon Sisters Of Avalon ♪ Sisters Of Avalon Sisters Of Avalon ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ Sisters Of Avalon ♪ Sisters Of Avalon ♪ Come on sisters ♪ Come on sisters ♪ Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey 1, 2, 3, 4... ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ (CROWD CHEERING) (FUNKY MUSIC PLAYING) (CHANGE OF HEART PLAYING) ♪ Here I am ♪ Just like I said I would be ♪ I'm your friend ♪ Just like you think It should be ♪ Did you think I would stand here and lie ♪ While our moment Was passing us by ♪ Oh I am here ♪ Waiting for your Change of heart ♪ It took just a beat To turn it around ♪ Yes I'm waiting for your Change of heart ♪ At the edge of my seat Please turn it around ♪ Days go by ♪ Leaving me with a hunger ♪ I could fly ♪ Back to when we were younger ♪ When adventures like cars We would ride ♪ And the years lied Ahead still untried ♪ So I am here ♪ Waiting for your Change of heart ♪ It just takes a beat To turn it around ♪ I'm waiting for your Change of heart ♪ At the edge of a seat ♪ Please turn it around ♪ Round n' Round ♪ Turn it around Round n' Round ♪ Turn it around ♪ Blind leading blind ♪ Never feel the laughter ♪ Search through time ♪ Nothing reveals the answer ♪ If it's truth that You're looking to find ♪ It is nowhere Outside of your mind ♪ I bide my time ♪ Waiting for your Change of heart ♪ It just takes a beat To turn it around ♪ Now yes I'm waiting For your change of heart ♪ At the edge of my seat Please turn it around ♪ Turn it around, Around, around ♪ Turn it around, Around, around ♪ Turn it around, Around, around ♪ Turn it, turn it, Turn it around (CROWD CHEERING) ♪ And I'm ♪ Waiting for your Change of heart ♪ Waiting for your Change of ♪ Heart ♪ Hit it!

(MUSIC OUTRO ENDS) (CROWD CHEERING) Thank you.

Kat Dyson - lead guitar.

Deni Bonet - Violin.

Bill Wittman - Bass, Sammy Merendino - Drums.

Steve Gaboury - Keyboards.

Okay... Wanna mop me?

In 1986, I was fortunate enough to come up on this song.

A friend of mine had passed away and he always...

When he was sick, we didn't know what the heck was wrong.

We thought, you know, if we sneezed, we would kill him.

If he sneezed, he'd kill us.

It was so horrible for us at the time.

And, um... And, that's what friends are for...

I was out at that time and he kept saying... 'Cyn, write me a song like that' and, um, I wrote him a song where I poured my heart out and, I think my liver too and...

It was never, you know... Wasn't one of those hits, I'll tell you that... Um, but, you know...

In the intro, in that album, I found that song... And it was perfect because it made me feel better.

And I sang it for him and... First of Iris's friends who loved him, and... And eventually it became the song he wanted me to sing for him.

It was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and...

I arranged it with Peter Wood, who also passed away... Not from the same thing, but...

In the end, I think that, when he saw what the song became and it became bigger than me...

Became bigger than us, it became Everyone's song to feel better for so many different reasons... And, I just feel fortunate enough to be... To have been a part of it and...

I dedicate it to my friend Gregory... And, to call who... Who survived him and... To all people who embraced the song and had the song help them, too.

One and two and three and four and... (TRUE COLORS PLAYING) ♪ You with the sad eyes ♪ Don't be discouraged ♪ Oh I realize ♪ It's hard to take courage ♪ In a world full of people ♪ You can lose sight of it all And darkness still inside you ♪ Make you feel so small ♪ But I see your true colors ♪ Shining through ♪ I see your true colors ♪ And that's why I love you ♪ So don't be afraid ♪ To let them show your ♪ True colors ♪ Your true colors ♪ Are beautiful, like a rainbow ♪ Show me a smile then ♪ And don't be unhappy, Can't remember when ♪ Last saw you laughing ♪ If this world makes you crazy ♪ And you've taken All you can bear ♪ You call me up ♪ Because you know I'll be there ♪ And I'll see your true colors ♪ Shining through ♪ I see your true colors ♪ And that's why I love you ♪ So don't be afraid ♪ To let them show your ♪ True colors ♪ Your true colors ♪ Are beautiful, Like a rainbow (APPLAUSE) ♪ If this world makes you crazy ♪ And you've taken All you can bear ♪ You call me up ♪ Because you know I'll be there ♪ And I'll see you true colors ♪ Shining through ♪ I see your true colors ♪ And that's why I love you ♪ So don't be afraid ♪ To let them show your ♪ True colors ♪ Your true colors ♪ Your true colors ♪ Keep shining through ♪ I see you true colors ♪ And that's why I love you ♪ So don't be afraid (APPLAUSE) ♪ Let them show your true colors ♪ Your true colors ♪ Are beautiful (CROWD SINGS) ♪ Like a rainbow ♪ (VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYING) (SHINE PLAYING) ♪ Shine ♪ I'll stand by you ♪ Don't try and push me away ♪ 'Cause I'm just gonna stay ♪ You can shine ♪ I won't deny you ♪ And don't be afraid ♪ It'll all be okay ♪ Do you know my name, Well I ♪ Ain't gonna take That big time line ♪ Won't be beat by a lie ♪ Gonna call out to these ember Waiting to ignite ♪ Gonna pull you up by your love ♪ By your love and tell you ♪ Shine ♪ I'll stand by you ♪ Don't try and push me away ♪ 'Cause I'm just gonna stay ♪ You can shine ♪ I won't deny you ♪ And don't be afraid ♪ It'll all be okay ♪ I can see the frown you wear ♪ All around Like some faded crown ♪ Like a watch over wound ♪ Gonna call down to this Diamond buried underground ♪ Gonna pull you up by your lov By your love ♪ And tell you ♪ When it's said and done ♪ What you need will come ♪ And time ♪ It won't let me ♪ Let you let me waste it ♪ This time ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ Shine ♪ I'll stand by you ♪ Don't try and push me away ♪ 'Cause I'm just gonna stay ♪ You can shine ♪ I won't deny you ♪ And don't be afraid ♪ It'll all be okay ♪ It'll all be okay ♪ May you shine ♪ You can shine ♪ Shine ♪ May you, may you ♪ Shine ♪ Shine (CROWD HOWLING) ♪ Shine ♪ This next song is the song that I actually fell off the stage.

In Oklahoma, too.

It's called It's Hard to be me, and when I fell obviously that's what I was thinking.

It's really hard to be me.

Anyway, um...

So I fell off the stage and I thought it was karma for saying things, 'cause you know, at the time when I wrote the song I had been up late, watching, you know, had the TV on, I couldn't sleep.

So, of course had the TV on, and then , you know, I saw, like, you know, to start off with Sports Channel and CNN and then Larry King and somehow it turned into the Court Channel and Judge Judy and all in between there I saw the Anna Nicole Smith trial.

(CROWD LAUGHING) You following me now?

And, um... And so...

In...

In that court thing at the end I guess to rub sal on the wound, I don't know...

Guy goes up to her and he says "How do you think it went?"

you know.

How the hell do you think it went?

Pretty crappy.

No, excuse my language.

Okay, pretty bad.

Anyway...

So she turned around and she said... She said... "You know, it's hard to be me."

And I thought to myself, "Wow, I thought I was the only person who thought that."

(CROWD LAUGHS) I kinda thought to myself, you know,"Great minds..." Never mind.

Anyway.

Now, see?

And there you go, that's what happens.

Anyway, my son, um... My little son, he calls this "the loud song" and when he has two he sang it quite often, and most kids at two do, because it has "me" in it a lot.

(CROWD LAUGHS) I like to say "me."

So... Just thought I give you a little background.

(CROWD CLAPS) One, two, three, four!

(IT'S HARD TO BE ME PLAYING) ♪ You see me everywhere In my underwear ♪ You may wonder What I'm here to sell ♪ But underneath my stare, I'm so naked there ♪ There are secrets I'm dying to tell ♪ It's hard to be me ♪ Nobody knows What it's like to be ♪ The envy of mediocrity ♪ If you could see ♪ All my depth and complexity ♪ I'd think you'd agree ♪ It's hard to be me ♪ It's hard to be me ♪ I am up here alone, On my glamorous throne ♪ Want to thank all you people Down there ♪ I was once an unknown, Like you but I've grown ♪ I have so much I'm hoping to share ♪ It's hard to be me ♪ Nobody knows What it's like to be ♪ The envy of mediocrity ♪ If you could see All my depth and complexity ♪ I'd think you'd agree ♪ It's hard to me, It's hard to be ♪ I guess you think that It's hard for you ♪ Walking 'round in your Little shoes ♪ But you don't know how I've sacrificed ♪ To live this life, To look so nice ♪ It's hard to be me ♪ Nobody knows What it's like to be ♪ The envy of mediocrity ♪ If you could see All my depth and complexity ♪ I'd think you'd agree ♪ It's hard to be me, It's hard to be me ♪ It's hard to be me ♪ Me, me, me, me ♪ Me, me, me ♪ Me, me, me, me, me, me ♪ Me ♪ Me, me, me , me, me ♪ Two, three!

(MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING PLAYING) ♪ I said I'm sorry baby I'm leaving you tonight ♪ I found someone ne He's waiting in the car outside ♪ Ah honey how could you do it ♪ We swore each other Everlasting love ♪ I said yeah I know But when we did ♪ There was one thin We weren't really thinking of ♪ And that's money ♪ Money changes everything ♪ I said money, Money changes everything ♪ We think we know What we're doing ♪ We don't pull the strings ♪ It's all in the past now ♪ Money changes everything ♪ They shake your hand And they smile ♪ And they buy you a drink ♪ They say we'll be your friends ♪ We'll stick with you Till the end ♪ Ah but everybody's only ♪ Looking out for themselves ♪ And you say, Who can you trust ♪ I'll tell you it's just ♪ Nobody else's money ♪ Money changes everything ♪ I said money, Money changes everything ♪ We think we know What we're doing ♪ We don't pull the strings ♪ It's all in the past now ♪ Money changes everything ♪ Hey ♪ Hey, hey hey ♪ Money, Money changes everything ♪ I said money, Money changes everything ♪ We think we know What we're doing ♪ We don't pull the strings ♪ It's all in the past now ♪ Money changes everything ♪ Money ♪ Everything, everything ♪ Money changes everything ♪ Money changes everything ♪ Money ♪ Changes everything ♪ Yeah ♪ Money, money ♪ Money, money, money ♪ M-m-m-m-money ♪ Makes us change ♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ♪ Ch-ch-ch-changes ♪ Changes, changes, Money, money Drummer time.

Hit me now.

Come on.

♪ Money, money ♪ Money, money, money ♪ M-m-m-money ♪ Fight the change ♪ Fight the change ♪ Thank you.

(CROWD APPLAUDS AND SHOUTS) (CROWDS LAUGHS) Such a goddess!

One and two and three and four and... (UNCHAINED MELODY PLAYING) ♪ Oh my love ♪ My darling ♪ I hunger for your touch ♪ Alone ♪ Lonely time ♪ And time goes by ♪ So slowly ♪ And time can do ♪ So much ♪ Are you still mine?

♪ I need your love ♪ I need your love ♪ God speed your love ♪ To me ♪ Lonely rivers flow ♪ To the sea ♪ To the sea ♪ To the open arms ♪ Of the sea ♪ Lonely rivers sigh ♪ Wait for me ♪ Wait for me ♪ I'll be coming home ♪ Wait for me ♪ Oh my love ♪ My darling ♪ I hunger for your touch ♪ Are you still mine?

♪ I need your love ♪ I need your love ♪ God speed ♪ Your love ♪ To me ♪ Oh my love ♪ Oh my love ♪ My love ♪ (CROWD APPLAUDS) Thank you.

See, I need the costume change.

(CROWD LAUGHS) See... Oh yeah, well.

I didn't want you to see the sex of my unborn next child, or something.

(CROWD LAUGHS) Oh come on, that's so rude, it's just wrong.

PERSON FROM THE CROWD: Play it!

I know.

What do you think I play this one for?

Everybody else who played this is dead.

It's about 100... 100 years ago, this was very popular.

(CROWD LAUGHS) There's no wise guys sitting and going, "Oh did you hear that chord?

That was wrong".

Who knows what chords?

Who cares?

Okay.

Never mind.

(TIME AFTER TIME PLAYING) ♪ Lying in my bed I hear ♪ The clock tick ♪ And think of you ♪ Caught up in circles ♪ Confusion is ♪ Nothing new ♪ Flashback ♪ Warm nights ♪ Almost left behind ♪ Suitcase ♪ Of memories ♪ Time after ♪ Sometimes you picture me ♪ I'm walking ♪ Too far ahead ♪ You're calling to me ♪ I can't hear ♪ What you said ♪ Then you say ♪ Go slow ♪ And I fall behind ♪ And the second hand unwinds ♪ If you're lost ♪ You can look And you will find me ♪ Time after time ♪ If you fall I will catch you ♪ I'll be waiting, Oh yes, I will ♪ Time after time ♪ After my picture fades ♪ And darkness has ♪ Turned to gray ♪ Watching through windows ♪ You're wondering if ♪ I'm okay ♪ Secrets ♪ Stolen ♪ From deep inside ♪ And the drum beats ♪ Out of time ♪ If you're lost ♪ You can look and You will find me ♪ Time after time ♪ If you fall I will catch you ♪ I'll be waiting, Oh yes, I will ♪ Time after time ♪ If you're lost ♪ You can look And you will find me ♪ Time after time ♪ If you fall I will catch you ♪ I will be waiting ♪ Time after time ♪ Time after time ♪ Time after time ♪ Time after time ♪ I got a suitcase of ♪ Memories ♪ Almost left behind ♪ Time after ♪ (CROWD APPLAUDS) Go ahead.

Go jungle on me, baby.

(GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN PLAYING) ♪ I come home In the morning light ♪ My mother says what you're Gonna do with your life?

♪ Oh mother dear We're not the fortunate ones ♪ And girls they wanna have fun ♪ Oh girls just want to have fun ♪ Phone rings In the middle of the night ♪ My father yell What you gonna do with your life ♪ Oh daddy dear you know You're still number one ♪ But girls they wanna have fun ♪ Oh girls just wanna have ♪ That's all they really want ♪ Some fun ♪ When the working day is done ♪ Oh girls wanna have fun ♪ Oh girls they wanna have fun ♪ Fun, wanna have fun ♪ Girls wanna have ♪ Some boys Take a beautiful girl ♪ And hide her away From the rest of the world ♪ I want to be the one To walk in the sun ♪ That's all they really want ♪ Some fun ♪ When the working day is done ♪ Oh girls they wanna have fun ♪ Oh girls just wanna have fun ♪ Fun, wanna have fun ♪ Girls wanna have ♪ They just wanna, They just wanna ♪ They just wanna, Just wanna ♪ You know when The working day is done ♪ They just wanna, They just wanna Sing to me, baby, come on.

♪ You know they wanna ♪ Oh they want to have fun ♪ Yeah ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ Yeah, yeah (VOCALIZING) ♪ They just wanna ♪ You know they just wanna ♪ You know they Wanna have some fun ♪ Come on, come on ♪ Girls they wanna have fun ♪ And the boys They wanna have, come on ♪ Girls they wanna have fun ♪ And the boys They wanna have, come on ♪ Girls they wanna have fun ♪ And the boys They wanna have, come on ♪ The girls they wanna have fun ♪ And the boys They wanna have, come on ♪ Everybody wanna have a little bit of fun ♪ Oh mother dear We're not the fortunate ones The girls ♪ And the boys They wanna have fun ♪ The girls ♪ And the boys They wanna have fun ♪ The girls ♪ And the boys They wanna have fun ♪ Want to have fun ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ Just wanna ♪ They just wanna ♪ You know when The working day is done ♪ They just wanna, They just wanna ♪ Oh the girls They wanna have fun ♪ And the boys They wanna have fun What happened?

Did I cue you?

All right, keep going girl.

♪ Fun (CROWD APPLAUDS) The power.

Two, three, four!

♪ Fun ♪ Fun ♪ Girls just wanna have fun ♪ Wanna have fun ♪ Girls just wanna have CROWD SINGS: ♪ Fun ♪ There you go!

See you!

Thank you!

Thank you.

Most of my childhood, I came here.

I spent many summers at the Rockaways and at Long Beach.

The city of New York is an amazing place because the variety of people is so fantastic that it's a very inspiring place to live.

Especially to grow up in.

Look at it.

How could you not be inspired to poetry?

I always have to remind myself... You're not just given a good voice.

You're not just given the ability to take you away what it is you feel.

You are also given who you are.

And who you are is part of your instrument.

And the people who raise you, they're part of your instrument.

And your surroundings are also your gift and your muse.

And I guess it took me a long time to realize all of that.

(FOOTSTEPS) (STAY PLAYING) Ay, ay, ay, ay ♪ Stay ♪ Just a little but longer ♪ Please, please, please, Please, please ♪ Tell me that you're going to ♪ Stay ♪ Just a little bit longer ♪ Please, please, please, Please, please ♪ Tell me that you're going to ♪ Daddy don't mind, do you?

♪ Mama don't mind, no ♪ If we have another dance ♪ Just one more time, One more time ♪ Stay ♪ Just a little bit longer ♪ Please let me hear ♪ You say that you will, Say you will ♪ Won't you place Your sweet lips ♪ To mine?

♪ Won't you say you love me ♪ All of the time?

♪ Si ♪ No ♪ Si ♪ No ♪ Si!

♪ Come on, stay ♪ Just a little longer ♪ Please, please, please, Please, please ♪ Tell me that you're going to ♪ Oh, come on stay ♪ Come on, come on, Come on, stay ♪ Come on, come on, Come on, stay ♪ Come on, come on, Come on, come on, stay ♪ Right now, right now ♪ Come on, come on, come on, come on, stay ♪ Stay ♪ This is Forest Park and this is a carousel I used to come to when I was a kid.

When I was a kid I think I was only allowed a certain amount of rides on the carousel.

Nowadays I can get as many rides as I want.

These are all hand carved.

It's absolutely beautiful.

Look at this guy.

This was one of the jewels of Queens Forest Park.

And this carousel has been ridden by many little kids.

And big kids.

(LAUGHS) This is Atlantic Avenue.

I lived off of Atlantic Avenue down here.

This is 101st Avenue.

This is where I used to wait for the bus to go to Junior High School.

Coming up.

There is a movie theater on my left.

And that's where I went to go see A Hard Day's Night.

Different...

Different moments in my life.

A Hard Day's Night, Rocky, and Annie Hall.

Different moments.

This used to be a dump.

But they changed it, thank goodness, and now it's a wildlife refuge.

They had to have some place to put the rats.

(LAUGHS) No, I'm kidding.

I used to fish off of this bridge with my grandfather, and my sister, and my brother and my mother, and, you know, my stepfather.

My stepfather was big on blowfish.

My grandfather was big on eel.

'Cause my grandmother hated them.

She'd always put them in the sink downstairs, you know.

My grandfather come home and put the eel in the sink downstairs, and then you had to kill him and clean him...

It's wrong.

And then on the blowfish, you'd catch them.

And they were nasty.

And then you'd... Chop the heads off, there's a little piece of meat inside, you take that and clean it.

That's what we would catch all day in buckets full.

That was our Sunday dinner.

(LAUGHS) There was a strange kind of beauty here and a poetry here, that I used to love to drive through and look at because it was inspiring, and to your right here and there, it goes right to the water.

But off of a certain...

Right on that water you can see the city skyline, which is stunning.

This is a very strange area for a channel.

It's, um...

It's...

It used to be a lot of Irish and Italian.

I'm not sure who lives here now.

You know, but if it's a place that... Like my neighborhood was immigrants but... We came from the immigrants who settled there and then they moved and we moved, and new immigrants came.

So I guess the neighborhood kind of hasn't changed.

It's just different countries.

Different immigrants there coming.

CYNDI: Just let's do this so we have one that doesn't...

CREW MEMBER: Did you have the book with this thing?

Yeah, yeah I do... CYNDI: I think...

CREW MEMBER: I don't know how to rewind these.

CINDY: It's not operational.

CREW MEMBER: Actually you have a great nice town.

CREW MEMBER: This looks really pretty.

CREW MEMBER: Okay, um, you know what?

-CREW MEMBER: Just hold it.

-CYNDI: You want me to help you?

CREW MEMBER: May?

CREW MEMBER: I don't how I'll get up there.

I just hold it from the bottom and just look at the... -CREW MEMBER: Hold it with the other hand.

-CYNDI: Oh, my God!

CREW MEMBER: Don't try to look in.

Just hold it with your other hand.

CYNDI: Oh, my God!

That's what it is?

That's the neighborhood.

You see one.

It's coming.

-CYNDI: What?

-CREW MEMBER: Look at my lens right now.

CYNDI: It's nice, that's what I wanted.

CREW MEMBER: See that thing?

Gorgeous.

I'm just catching him actually eating cookies.

-CREW MEMBER: I'll drive and then shove you out the window.

-CYNDI: All right.

(HORN SOUNDS) -CREW MEMBER: There's a train right there.

-CYNDI: Where?

What train?

There's no train.

-CREW MEMBER: Right near that building.

-CYNDI: Oh, damn.

CREW MEMBER: Oh there's Van Dam street.

You going to get off?

(CYNDI LAUGHS) You gotta get off.

We'll be fucking lost.

Get off.

-CREW MEMBER: I wanna take us to that one street in Green Point.

-CYNDI: Yeah.

That's too scary, come on.

(LAUGHING) This is where they dump them, baby!

Oh, my God!

Well, look at that, that's beautiful.

-CREW MEMBER: Get out!

-CYNDI: I am.

(LAUGHING) -This is from Tony Soprano, get out!

-CREW MEMBER: Get out!

-CYNDI: Get out.

-CREW MEMBER: Turn around.

CYNDI: Oh, my God, now we're going in.

(GASPS) You went over glass.

Yeah what if you did?

Where the fuck are we?

(LAUGHS) You went over the glass.

I can't change the tyre.

I don't know where I am.

I know you don't.

I got to find my AA card.

-You said AAA.

-CREW MEMBER: No, just tell me if you're a drunk.

Triple A. I wasn't drunk.

CYNDI: 'Cause I know you don't know.

-CREW MEMBER: You want a clear shot of the burn.

-CYNDI: Yeah, burn.

-CREW MEMBER: That's quite beautiful actually.

-CYNDI: Whoa!

Look at that.

That's fierce.

-That's pretty good.

-CREW MEMBER: Gorgeous.

CYNDI: You don't want it to be Cher's show.

Oh, good.

Now we're in the Industrial Park again.

(DOG BARKING) CREW MEMBER: Beautiful.

Look at that.

It's red, white and blue.

It's pretty.

CYNDI: Are we patriotic?

(LAUGHS) CREW MEMBER: Get out!

Get out!

CYNDI: My hands are killing me.

All right, that's beautiful.

You want documentary footage?

Go shoot it yourself.

Hey, can't avoid that.

Hey, I forgot to buy the straps.