Lyrics
SECOND AVENUE
(Champeaux and Sherman)
Tuesday morning lying next to you
September so true
Phone keeps ringing somewhere up the hall
Sirens are nothing new
Like a rerun watching on TV
Didn’t seem real
And every time I see that blue I remember
Second Avenue
All that crying and airplanes flying
Nothing’s the same
Out my window white stretchers in a line
Still nobody came
14th Street me and strangers in a bar silent 9am
And every time I see that blue I remember
Second Avenue
The flyers at the Armory names and faces smiling places last seen
Known you for years never seen so many tears brought us to our knees
A million hidden scars and all those invisible stars
The years call you by name
Uptown roads never travelled
The sacred dust and gravel
Downtown the souls still remain
Tuesday morning still lying next to you
It’s September again
And every time I see that blue
I remember
Second Avenue