Words of the Walls

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First nights and last days, the occasional new paint Floors are better little scuffed and scarred Seems over the long years everyone's lived here Rode the elevator made of bars How does it still run? It's carried everyone Getting a start in these character apartments The rooms at the Roslyn have seen it all The birth of the stories, the sorrows and glories If you could only hear the words of the walls A lost lover's laughter and the tears that came after All the different ships that pass in the night And that same square of sun never fails to come So warm and a little too bright Shines until the day is done They can wait for the next one Getting a start in these character apartments The rooms at the Roslyn have seen it all The birth of the stories, the sorrows and glories If you could only hear the words of the walls Lessons learned, counters burned By the candles blazing at both ends Barely paid the rent till the time was spent And cardboard boxes came out again Corrugated bookends The timeless transcendence of young independence Never gets old though the lease is done Another moving day comes They can wait for the next one Getting a start in these character apartments The rooms at the Roslyn have seen it all The birth of the stories, the sorrows and glories If you could only hear the words of the walls If you could only hear the words of the walls If you could only hear the words of the walls