the field next to the road 1981

Lyrics

[Verse 1] You rolled a joint with a New Yorker, dated 1994 And went outside to smoke and locked yourself outside the door Dropped your wallet down the fire escape stairs And into Lower Manhattan but you couldn't pay your fare Found yourself with the pigs, eating dirt off the cobble A spiritual revolution inside of a Tylenol bottle [Verse 2] Saw Huck Finn in Union Square He was chewin' on his nails Said you could come to Ludlow Street If you wanna meet John Cale Said that you were tired He said, "Either way, you lose" There's an abandoned office over there Where they tried to build a nuke And The Village Voice was blaming Studio 54 For all the crazy artists buying all the paint from Pearl's store [Verse 3] Carnegie was closed, Sinatra got too drunk But someone said you could come to mine If you were looking for some junk The Prince of Cool told Chet to go back to L.A "Record the blue notes in New Jersey The Julliard students won't get paid" There was a poem on the wall He said, "It's just the same old shit And Mary Boone is payin' someone to paint over top of it" [Verse 4] The famous editor of a magazine died on the floor They left the body on the desk There was a strike at the morgue Found yourself an officer Said you couldn't find your way home But he was blown into the air By the steam shot out a manhole And there's a field next to the road It's an awful place to be Took the metro back to Brooklyn Decided just to use the key [Instrumental Outro]