Through these city nightmares you'd walk with me   And we'd talk of it with idealistic assurance   That it wouldn't tear us apart   We'd keep our heads above the blackened water   But there's no room for ideals in this mechanical place   And you're gone now      Through a grimy window that I can't keep clean   Through billowing smoke that's swallowed the sun   You're nowhere to be seen      Do you think our desires still burn   I guess it was desires that tore us apart   There has to be passion   A passion for living, surviving   And that means detachment   Everybody has a weapon to fight you with   To beat you with when you are down   There were too many defences between us      Doubting all the time   Fearing all the time   Doubting all the time   Fearing all the time   That like these urban nightmares   We'd blacken each other skies      When we passed the subways we tried to ignore our fate there   Of written threats on endless walls   Unjustified crimes carried in stifled calls   Would you walk with me now through this pouring rain   It used to mingle with our tears then dry the hopes that we left behind   It rains even harder now