Now I notice the streetlamp's hum    The ghosts 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    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      Oh I never had just whatever it is you want, baby    And I really tried, I tried with all my might, it 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 sometime    And all I ever say now is good-bye.