Tom Meltzer     There's a cold rain pouring off the Williamsburg Bridge  The world's giving way beneath my feet  Someone once said that you're lucky when you're dead  You know sometimes I agree  They're sweeping hot bottle caps onto the street  There's a boy about 16 staring down  With a sick little smile just to prove he's alive  As he looks around for nothing on the ground  Once his life was a prison but it burst at the seams  When he found a way to leave his dreams behind  Now he lives in a mist he hopes will leave him so numb  That he'll die without a worry on his mind  CHORUS     I was walking through Williamsburg, taking it in  Trying to keep the courage not to run  When a boy left a bodega and he stepped in my path  In his right hand was a gun  He said, "Give me your money and I'll leave you alive"  And he shook and looked discouraged while he talked  And I tried not to watch him as he walked away  But I noticed a spring in his walk  CHORUS     You only get one chance at everything on this Earth  And everything you do you must redeem  It's a hard sad life most people'd rather throw away  On drinks and drugs and idle dreams  I was sitting in my bedroom staring at an empty fifth  The night was disappearing from my head  When I had a funny thought and I started to laugh  'Cause I remembered what somebody said  CHORUS