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 New York Rain Copyright 2005 by Adam Selzer. All rights reserved, ASCAP
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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