[00:07.89]I live by the Hudson River,
[00:10.6]And a lot of boats go by.
[00:13.2]They glide by so quickly,
[00:14.90]Camouflaged against the Jersey Shore.
[00:20.26]Sometimes at night when the liners are lit up,
[00:22.88]It's hard to tell which is moving,
[00:24.62]the boat, or the shoreline.
[00:27.1]And it seems like all of Manhattan is comin' anchored,
[00:29.78]And slowly drifting out to sea.
[00:32.31]I spent, hours trying to film them,
[00:35.10]So I set up a camera by the window.
[00:37.95]And every time I hear a horn,
[00:40.20]I ran to the window.
[00:42.23]But I usually miss them.
[00:45.52]It's kind of rhythem,
[00:47.48]I kind of thinking it's been getting into the song I've been writing lately.
[00:52.47]Like walking upstairs in the dark,
[00:54.65]You think there's one more step than there actually is.
[00:57.73]And you foot comes pounding down,
[01:00.12]Is nothing underneath.
[01:02.39]Or like the piano we got a few months ago,
[01:05.47]Only a few keys work.
[01:07.96]So we put it out in the hall near the door.
[01:11.22]When people come in,
[01:12.6]they break their hands acorss the keyboard,
[01:15.6]playing a few notes that still work.
[01:19.8]It's kind of a doorbell now.
[01:23.42]All the sounds around were so distracting,
[01:26.22]I was trying to concentrated
[01:29.11]on a song for performance.
[01:31.69]But I couldn't.
[01:33.95]And my mother called and said,
[01:36.0]"Why not come out here and write your song? “
[01:38.83]It's real quiet, I just put on new carpets down."
[01:42.61](Anybody home? )（
[01:44.29]When I got there, I noticed that
[01:46.65]The new carpets were so thick that
[01:48.89]None of the doors closed.
[01:51.33]The only door that still worked was the door to parent's room.
[01:54.97]It was a swing door,
[01:57.21]Every time someone opened it,
[01:59.14]It thwack into the parrot's cage,
[02:01.81]And the parrot screamed.
[02:03.54]Each time this happened totally surprised dozens of times a day.
[02:08.9]And the shirek filled the whole house,
[02:11.27]Through all the half-opened doors.
[02:23.11]And this is the song,
[02:26.32]I finally wrote.