[00:08.56].
[00:16.93]There's a thousand black cars
[00:19.18]Driving around in my blood stream
[00:21.87]I'd have to take a thousand pills
[00:24.12]To find out where their headlights lead.
[00:27.06]Is it cold New York?
[00:29.31]Is it freezing in your bed?
[00:32.25]Because I caught a deep chill
[00:34.12]When I went over the Hudson again.
[00:36.81].
[00:37.44]It's alright, counting city lights,
[00:42.88]Where the Turnpike divides,
[00:44.94]Waving goodbye to my former life.
[00:46.69].
[00:47.17]I don't want to be a self-medicator
[00:49.55]But it's hard to sleep when you're born to run.
[00:52.17]I'm sick of living life in the Garden State Trap
[00:54.42]But all the roads are pointing home again.
[00:58.86].
[01:07.92]Holy Cross has got a headstone all picked out for me
[01:13.11]And my only job is to walk around
[01:15.48]until I fall down at its feet.
[01:17.98]Maybe home is just the place you can never escape:
[01:23.05]From the Camden City graves
[01:25.74]to the edge of the Palisades
[01:27.74].
[01:28.67]It's alright, counting city lights,
[01:33.61]Where the Turnpike divides,
[01:35.68]Waving goodbye to my former life.
[01:37.23].
[01:37.48]I don't want to be a self-medicator
[01:40.17]But it's hard to sleep when you're born to run.
[01:42.36]I'm sick of living life in the Garden State Trap
[01:45.05]But all the roads are pointing home again.
[01:50.24].
[02:02.33]And I'll be counting the city lights
[02:05.28]Blinking on and off tonight as life passes by
[02:11.66]And I'm left behind, standing on the shoulder
[02:15.65]of the Jersey Turnpike.
[02:19.40]Buildings seem to rise like coffins full
[02:23.91]of stars getting buried in the sky.
[02:26.84]You want to laugh and dance,
[02:29.34]to be free? Well, alright
[02:36.03].
[02:38.65]
[02:54.78]I've been thinking
[02:58.66]about those days I wanted to sleep
[03:03.03]And you'd wake me up just before you'd leave
[03:09.72]And I'd fall back into a dream:
[03:17.16]Walking in fresh city snow
[03:20.78]that you'd never seen
[03:23.03]And I'd never leave your side.