So cold today
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Wind is blowing
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You turn your face away
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Can hardly see where you're going
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Walking downtown
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Eighth Street, Washington Square
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Stepping carefully
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In the footprints someone left there
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While the city all around you
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Becomes only paper thin
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And the wind on your face
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Is freezing someone else's skin
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And the sun is making movies
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Slo-mo black and white
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You wish you could breathe the cold air
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And feel it move inside
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I know what it is to be nowhere
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I know what it's like
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I know what it is to be nowhere
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Long ago in your room
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Pretended you were far away
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Then you looked into your mother's eyes
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Saw no one was reflected there
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Now your secrets are your companions
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You know them all by heart
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They're written on your body
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You read them in the dark
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Carved underneath your sweater
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So you'll always remember
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At least they're something to hold onto
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Hold onto
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I know what it is to be nowhere
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I know what it's like
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I know what it is to be nowhere
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Nowhere
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Walking downtown
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To a place you've never been before
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Go inside and say your name
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And close the door
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Go inside, say your name
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And close the door
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Go inside
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Go inside
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Go inside
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Nowhere
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Lucy Kaplansky |