CITY SONG

You come to the City, Wearing the styles, and all the while Keeping your eyes open, and your self inside Behind those open eyes As though Youth were a shield, Mine was, but I don't know This dream you're living It is all your own

Living in a closet With no windows

Did you find what you wanted Did you even find what you used to want A beauty that feeds on your heart What you came here to see and believe

Snow is mud over the steaming grates It will be ground by a thousand feet before the sun goes down And girls flash by in miniskirts, don't seem to feel the cold Their racoon-painted eyes

Like Fashion Magazines From thirty years ago

Did you find what you wanted Did you even find what you used to want A beauty that feeds on your heart What you came here to see and believe

Cancer people beg for change, belongings all set forth Thieves selling items from apartments Just like yours And maybe in the spring some measure of success By the time the leaves come out

A Better Apartment With a Better Address

Did you find what you wanted Did you even find what you used to want A beauty that feeds on your heart What you came here to see and believe