I Mean Business - Original Elton John Demo

Growing up across the Hudson, I stared out of my window Every night at the Manhattan skyline Reading the Sunday Times with the 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 honors degree I got a shoebox apartment in Bushway It can barely fit a futon, but it worked for me 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 beat And show the 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 And I will work And I will work my way back to you Walkin' east on 42nd It's like all of a sudden Every light, it's turnin' green for me now I got my good-luck notebook for my interview this mornin' 'Cause I'm a little buzzed 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 adopting will soon be resulting In a monumental story they can now 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 beat 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 And I will work And I will work my way back to you And by the time that I'm 24, the New Yorker will promote me And before I turn 28, every late night show will quote me Pull at the prize winner Andy Sachs Exposing corruption, I'm bringing the facts Like Gloria Steinem in her prime Changing the world, one page at a time I mean business, oh yes I mean business through and through I mean business, New York City I mean business, oh yes 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