Folded tight in a wool coat sleeve
Long before it was time to leave
Ink is faded on the transit line
Counting seconds in a slow design
I remember how the winter felt
Watching frozen silver puddles melt
Cobblestones in a narrow street
Where the city and the alley meet
I am the map of a ghost town beat
Tracing the lines of a winter street
Cold white paper in a shaking hand
Drawing the borders of a forgotten land
Torn edges where the fingers frayed
Underneath where the lamplight played
Iron gates with a rusty lock
Ticking steady like a heavy clock
I am the map of a ghost town beat
Tracing the lines of a winter street
Cold white paper in a shaking hand
Drawing the borders of a forgotten land
Eight
Two color on a linen fold
Stories that the subway never told
Hold the corner of the midnight blue
Waiting for a face I once knew
Sooty brick and a salty breeze
Swaying branches of the winter trees
I show the way to a hidden door
That they don't open any more
Now I'm yellowed like a dying leaf
Holding onto a quiet grief
Stored away in a cedar box
While the city turns its heavy locks
I am the map of a ghost town beat
Tracing the lines of a winter street
Cold white paper in a shaking hand
Drawing the borders of a forgotten land
Just a line on a page.
Ink and cobblestone.
Fold me up.
Fold me up.