I can’t stop walking

it’s too cold

and I want you

cause you’re too near

And I want you but it’s not easy

Every shape and shadow

While a young boy and his friend

Call to Destiny

‘Hey walk me to tomorrow’

And I can't stop

The heart radiators

Working overtime for no connection

While pipes puff steam, endlessly

Absent of warmth and affection

And I'll run down second avenue

I'll push the pushcart and the mule

Ribbons weightless, wanderers and theives

And I'll carry it up to my room

Around my neck now black and blue

And I will ask nothing from thee

And I can’t stop the bone collectors

Pulling history from time

I’m like an orbit spin spin spinning

Only gravity will pull me form the sky

Our rambling reciprocities

that back and forth ‘tween you and me

Just stalls and we’re looking like crime

Ecstatic light come shine on me

oh press upon my hands and knees

And hold me here until the better times

And I can’t stop your followers from counting

On your feathers as you fly away

Or say I knew you when, before the days of lent

When you’d given up all you had to say

As you fly past traffic jams

Hangers-on they bang on cans

Life lovers sing the benzedrine riff

Like rain we grip the fire escape

Trembling from the quake

Still shaken from the storm we cam on in

And I’ll just say, Coca Cola, have another, it’s on me