It's a garbage truck hour, I'm sleeping in the shower   I'm feeling like I'm waiting on a train   By the sounds from my bed I think somebody's bled   All over something someone's keeping clean      I don't need anything, just make it bright   Then turn it low   You don't need more than me   You could live right there beneath the stairs   I've done it, I've said all I can, I've reached the end   Now you must learn to bend   Bend to the floor, taste the core      You're not going nowhere   Leave the money right there   I feel the arrow sticking in my ear   We owe so much we pawned   Now watch the power come undone   I'm standing on my head to watch the day just drift away   This city always makes the same mistakes, asleep or awake      I'm sick of waking up inside white balloons   Inside of blue balloons      New york air is sweet tonight   There's no stars but that's all right   I'm breathing      I feel you through your fear   Pull the arrow from my ear   Tonight we'll take a different way home   They say the fire burns but won't consume   But it does consume      You're slick, you shoplift   What's left of my brain   You haven't changed   This city always makes the same mistakes,   It's just like me   It always breaks in two   I'm sick of me for being sick of you   We'll take a gypsy cab to heaven or hell   Time will tell