Intro - New York State Of Mind lyrics

[Spoken]
I was on a bus on my way back to Highland Falls, New York
Elizabeth found us a house up on the Hudson River
And it was fall, it was just gorgeous
The colors were ablaze, the trees were like gold and red
And I remember thinking, "This is the New York State I loved when I was a kid
This is magic, we don't have this in California"
And I wrote this love song to New York on the bus