Copper - jade   Overworked and underpaid   Blessed-born, drenched and worn   Shades of doubt   wrong side up or inside out   With double plays and rain delays   A million ways to fill the day   These are the lives and times      Stubbled chin   Red star setting, blue-eyed grin   Communiques of Raoul's new days   And with her pen   Maggie's cleaning house again   Of punch clock plans   And one-night stands   And scars that kiss her poet's hands   These are the lives and times      Another generation swalloed up by time   Old aspirations trampled and maligned   Can we re-connect them   Shade and protect them   Rise up and resurrect them      Indiscreet   The lights above Delancey street   Flash and fade   I love you babe   Midnight blooms   Or dreary tombstone afternoons   No, I don't mind if they collide   While you and I dream of the Lower-East side   These are the lives and times.