to look at you is to awake from dreaming

The Dismemberment Plan - The City

Now I notice the streetlamp's hum
the ghost of graffiti they couldn't quite erase
the blank-faced stares on the subway
as the 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

Sometimes I stand on my roof at night
and watch as something seems to
happen somewhere else
I feel like the breeze will pick me up and carry me away
out and over this iridescent grid
up and away from the bar fights and neon lights,
out and away from everything that makes me what I am

Oh I never had just whatever it is
you want, baby
and I really tried, I tried and tried with all my might
it made me crazy
to try and figure out what it is I've done wrong
every time when
everything I love everything I hold dear
heads out sometime

And all I ever say now is goodbye

(listen)