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I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life
Let's make some music, make some money, find some models for wives
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and fuck with the stars
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars

If ever you have heard the story of a certain girl named Alice, you will probably be very familiar with a world down the rabbit hole. Cheshire cat smiles and the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Perhaps if you know the story of the Darling children, you’ll remember Neverland, where you never had to grow up and you never had to accept responsibilities. A land where you didn’t have your parents breathing down your neck; where it was enough to believe in fairies and sit with mermaids in a blue lagoon. As children we dream of these places and we imagine every adventure possible, then reason tells us to doubt, and we dream of pixie dust and dinner with rabbits no longer. Instead there’s love and happiness and wealth and splendour, and they take over our lives and control our actions from day to day. A thousand miles away from forgotten dreams, and all that can be said is that we exist. What it is to feel alive – to feel infinite – well, that’s something completely different. You left that behind with pixie dust and mermaids from the blue lagoon.

This is our decision, to live fast and die young
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun
Yeah, it's overwhelming, but what else can we do
Get jobs in offices, and wake up for the morning commute?

Welcome to New York City, conquered by the British in 1644 and given it’s name the same year. Home to famous residents such as the Statue of Liberty and Spiderman, this is the place that brings extravagant wealth and startling poverty together and is able to make or break the best of you. It’s the largest city within its state, and probably the most famous, too. This is the place that attracts around forty million visitors each year; but you probably already knew that. Facts and figures are the easy things to work out about New York. Living there is something entirely different, and whilst you’ll be extremely excited once you receive your acceptance letter from NYU, the reality can turn out to be a lot scarier than getting lost on your way to a lecture or misplacing your laptop in the library. This is the equivalent of falling down the rabbit hole. This is the equivalent of second star on the right- only actions have consequences, and you might just realise that being away from the comfort of mommy and daddy isn’t all the fun and shallow teen melodrama One Tree Hill might make it sound.

I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone

But by all means, board that plane and don’t be put off as you drive through Queens. Do your term papers, don’t party too much, make friends in high places, and perhaps you’ll get out without too much permanent damage. It sounds perfectly easy in reasoning, but there will always be a bottle saying “DRINK ME” or a cake that says “EAT ME”. One thing you can be sure of is that New York doesn’t do mediocre. And maybe you’ll even find love life; that one moment when you feel infinite. That one moment that some people would just give forever for. Just don’t let the bright lights blind you first; this ain’t Kansas, and no one’s going to be there to hold your hand.

There's really nothing, nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew
The models will have children, we'll get a divorce
We'll find some more models, everything must run it's course

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