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I'm walking in Times Square in the Electric Daylight

The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white

I'm up here with my spying glass at the window up above

For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love


Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned

Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone


"And remember to flee far away from the unbridled,

and the impudent, the malicious, and the unlucky.

For these being full of bad demons or rays are maleficent,

and like lepers and people stricken with plague,

they harm not only by touch but even by proximity and by sight." (Dig it!)

(Quote from Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher [1433-1499])


You mutter underneath your breath - IT ECHOES ROUND THE WORLD

Everybody comes from nowhere

There is hope, it loops up in the air


Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned

Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone


You said I used to be handsome if you screwed up your eyes

Professors and vampires drank up all the tears I cried

Now there's a bird at my window, he feeds upon the pane

And sometimes he sings to me - a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy


Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned

Now I know, somehow I don't feel so alone

Now I know, I should have never walked over the bridge I burned

Now I know, they've burned one sinner and the others are selling firewood


Now I know

Now I know

Now I know