On a Pier, On the Hudson

Lyrics for On a Pier, On the Hudson

New York City's a reflection of how you feel If your heart is full, you'll feel the warm pavement under your heels But if your heart is empty, it's just a pile of concrete and steel A desert where nothing blooms, a graveyard for dreams We find a pier on the Hudson, as far out as we can go My mind still repeats the word "obsolete" from the song you wrote I know you didn't mean to, but the song made me feel old For you, the river stands still, your dream's fulfilled, for me, it's just started to flow If you don't want to go backwards, why can't I go forwards with you? How can you leave the door open and tell me not to walk through? Tell me not to walk through I hate this, I hate this more than anything (I know, I do too) No, you don't, if you hated it, it wouldn't be happening (I know that's true) Tell me you love me, tell me you want me in your life again I can tell you the first but not the second You see those lights on the other side, I saw them on TV when I was a child In the darkness I grew up in, where that TV was my only light I never dreamt that I'd get here, even less this could be my life And now it's like a spell, I've become someone else, someone who has to travel light I don't wanna go backwards, but I can't go forwards with you Whoever I'm turning into, whatever I have to do I don't wanna go backwards, but I can't go forwards with you Those are my last words, that's all I can give you That's all I can give you And that's how you leave me standing, you order a cab and go You let me hug you and I should refuse, but I don't And behind the New York skyline, the Tsar Bomba explodes I imagine the heatwave approaching, how it swallows me whole