The City

Well, now I notice the streetlamp's hum
 The ghosts of graffiti they couldn't quite erase
 The blank-faced stares on the subway as people go home
 The parks lay empty like my unmade bed
 The streets are silent like my lifeless telephone
 And this is where I live, but I've never felt less at home
 So I'm not unsympathetic
 I see why you left
 There's no one to know
 There's nothing to do
 The city's been dead
 Since you've been gone
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 Sometimes I stand on my roof at night
 And watch as something seems to happen somewhere else
 I feel like the breeze could pick me up and carry me away
 Out and over the iridescent grid
 Up and away from the bar fights and neon lights
 And out and away from everything that makes me what I am
 So I'm not unsympathetic
 I see why you left
 There's no one to know
 There's nothing to do
 The city's been dead
 Since you've been gone
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 Oh, I never had just whatever it is you want, baby
 Oh, I really tried, tried and tried with all my might, made me crazy
 To try to figure out what it is I've done wrong every time when
 Everything I love, everything I hold dear
 Heads out sometimes
 All I ever say now is goodbye
 Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye