Take it away.

Wake up with the sleep still in our heads.

We can go eat in the diner downstairs We can go get the paper Or go back to bed And dream of things that are left unsaid Girls walking home from church look a little uptight As they pass the places where they drank last night And the sun is shining down on the Verrazano Bridge It's another Sunday morning in Bay Ridge Johnny Nolan is still tendin' the bar The band is packin' up their last guitars And the old men are still drinkin' Singin' Hallelujah Live Pour me another drink before I die

that came too late Yeah, they know in their aim The traces of their fate Hallelujah light Hallelujah light Hallelujah light

Pour me another drink before I die.

The shopkeepers are closing up their doors.

But the lights are on in the 24-hour store.

And the stars are shining down on the refugees and the whores and the immigrants who

All right.

Things they went from bad to worse so quickly that it had to hurt.

It's not like taking a band-aid off the speed don't ease the pain.

Just

a blur of hospital rooms, nurses' rounds of plastic tubes, little pills like pink balloons that float into your brain.

What's that line by Robert Frost? There's something there that doesn't love a wall.

You said the distance grows with every stone I lay.

Now you're done leaving, but I'm still grieving with so much left to say.

I

dreamed I had a boat, so I sailed away to sea.

I explained it all in a note, just why I had to leave.

still I couldn't stop thinking as I came upon the shore that this world just ain't no place for a man of faith anymore first we broke the bread then we drank the wine red ants they scaled the dogwood trees up and down in lines but you said had Jacob been an insect This would be his dream because heaven isn't always what we think it ought to be.

Then we took a walk as the sun set on the town.

The lights, they all went on in windows.

Their orange glow seemed safe and warm.

You on acid?

I

dreamed I had a boat, so I sailed away to sea.

I explained it all in a note, just why I had to leave.

still I couldn't stop thinking as I came upon the shore that this world just ain't no place for a man of faith anymore first we broke the bread then we drank the wine red ants they scaled the dogwood trees up and down in lines but you said had Jacob been an insect This would be his dream because heaven isn't always what we think it ought to be.

Then we took a walk as the sun set on the town.

The lights, they all went on in windows.

Their orange glow seemed safe and warm.

You on acid?

Sure, go ahead.

You hitched your wagon to my star.

Dim as it was, I got us both lost.

I was gonna be famous You were gonna be proud Just look at us now Look at us now When I sold the Buick To keep the lights on You took that job that you hated

With your mom I never dreamed

Things could get so hard And the quiet between us Could grow so

loud

Yeah, man, tell us a little bit about yourself.