| It’s a snowy night, the cops shut down the freeway
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| big men in plows are out carving up the streets
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| Below them, jammed on a subway,
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| I’m with two hundred over-dressed strangers
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| brushing snow off coats and shoulders
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| kicking snow off dress shoe feet
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| chorus:
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| You live six miles down this trolley car’s trail
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| up above the red line, where the street musicians wail
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| Where Baby, we used to chase down coffee
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| on the sidewalk take in tunes
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| We’d drink in the waning hours
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| till we polished off the moon
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| Who knew the moon would fail
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| above the trolley car trail
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| «Park Street, next station»
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| says a voice with an accent I’ve heard
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| and I see shoppers on the platform
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| where green and red lines diverge
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| I fight my way through the packages and the bows
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| to a pay phone, the operator knows
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| she says to me, «Your nervousness shows»
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| I say, «'Nervous' is too kind a word»
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| bridge:
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| I think snowfall should be measured
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| By how much it takes a city by surprise
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| By how far back old timers go to remember
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| the last time a blizzard stung their eyes
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| Last time I rode a subway
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| you had summer in your eyes
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| you did
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| Your phone rings, but it only brings your voice
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| on a message machine, «I'm not here, the tape is clear»
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| me, I’m off the hook it seems
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| «I called,"I say, «to say `hello'
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| to coax you out where the snowmen grow
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| but you’re not home, and hey, I gotta go,
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| it was good to hear your voice.» |