Smart and poor don't go so far
Downtown floats around
We watch tomorrow
Hold me close I don't want to leave you
But I'm too long from home and I don't know
I have this room for thinking in, thinking I don't know
Why so long
Why so fast
Why so hard to fill?

God does cross-stitch up in Autumn,
She pricks her fingers on the wheel
Oh it's messy and forgetful-
Man, those stars been out for weeks.

Hand me that red shirt I showed you,
Cuz I am gonna bleed

I don't belong here, I lean over,
I tie my shoes, I feel for the earth
New York's cold, it's fierce freezin cold
My heart's being told off, told and told
I seen worse and this ain't nothing
I know I can breathe through pudding
I don't know how I do this twisting
and get it straight again.
Hand me that red shirt I showed you,
Cuz I am gonna bleed

Smart and poor don't go so far
Downtown floats around
Watch tomorrow
Hold me close
Hold me close
Hold me close
Hold me close