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New York Rain
Copyright 2005 by Adam Selzer. All rights reserved, ASCAP
released 2006 on Clark Street Carols

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How're you doing, Jane? I'm just watching the news
it says it's coming down where you are and it sounds like it's true
can you even hear it all those floors above 7th avenue?
Lately I've been thinking of asking you guys
to send back all my letters, they're all just lies
that I don't want published in some collection after my demise
you know that empty lot by the pizza place
on Venture Street that used to be the video arcade
I wrote my name in the dust just to watch it blow away.
If I have an old soul, that's just because they're cheaper used
and my throat always hurts and I'm always tired - these old ones always break on you

    CHORUS
There's nothing down this road but an old abandoned bar
and a church that's been boarded up forever
I've been sitting watching TV news in my underwear all night
and I just called up to ask you one quick favor:
Won't you hold the phone
up to the window, Jane?
So I can hear the sound
Of the New York rain


I saw a naked girl who looked like you today
in the window of the brown-stone on Tanglewood Lane
but she was just there a second before she stepped away
Every now and then when I go downtown
I throw money at the yuppies just to see them bow
like we always used to do, Jane, do you still remember how?
Do you still have that jacket that hung down to the floor
that your grandmother got you right before the war?
Speaking of that, Kevin's back, but he doesn't look much like he did before
Dust is all that's left of the old downtown today
These new neighborhoods are built without any sidewalk
and all I ever think about is getting away

CHORUS

Just one more thing, did you ever know
that the night you first left three years ago
I was standing there watching as your footprints slowly filled with snow?

CHORUS

notable links: Cornersville Trace



        January 2005












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