Along the Hudson

Lyrics

I wore a flight jacket once Torn open all one winter 'Cause nothing in New York City Not the trucks I unloaded Or the streets they slammed down Was gonna touch me I though that if I did one or two things right I might rise above all that business The way each morning While I stamped my feet In the frozen Sea line Freight Yard As sheets of light Rose above the broken terminals of Lower East Side Sheets of light Rose above the broken terminals of Lower East Side [Chorus] But it didn't take long For my hands to clench on their own No it didn't take long For the wind and the light To blow out Along the Hudson I thought on days There wasn't any work If I had walked Battery Park long enough Watching two rivers turn Turn into each other I might understand What was ahead [Chorus] But it didn't take long For my hands to clench on their own No it didn't take long For the wind and the light To blow out Along the Hudson And I thought The Spanish I heard spoken all night Was just a song a city sang to itself To soothe the sleep of a girl Beside me And I remembered A story about an old man who lies Besides a sleeping girl And listens to the dry rustle of his heart [Chorus] But it didn't take long For my hands to clench on their own No it didn't take long For the wind and the light To blow out Along the Hudson I wore a flight jacked once Torn open all one winter 'Cause nothing in New York City Not the trucks I unloaded Or the streets they slammed down Was gonna touch me