Dirty Snow

Faded in the morning light
With no one else
Out on the streets
Walking down the high
I'd never bent that far
In a hotel suite
When it gets so dark
There's only one
I wanna see
But she don't like the way
That I descend this far
Or the sum of my needs
In a dream recurring
A phonograph
Plays softly into the night
And I am dancing
With you lightly
Under a full moon
High on a stage
Then it rains like hell
On the park
As we cross it together
I am holding your hand
Rambling drunk
With not much to say
But saying it anyway
I'm partly fooling around
By sharing all
Of this drivel today
You know I only fill the air
Because I love you
Please understand me
The dream is now a photograph
Under a February night sky
I am sitting in the dark
Hooked to a polygraph
In hiding upstate
And the rains
That fell on the park
Are now in a basement flood
As I stand here across from you
Wondering how much to say
Since it all got away

I hope no one more
In your family's gonna die
And that you and I
Will be alright
I hope the ground we're on
Will quit sinking
And that bright leaves
Lead us from the dark
And fireflies open my heart
I hope the dirty snow
Will melt soon