Jim Carroll - The Narrows (For Carol Kane) lyrics

That is the way you are, always given to silence, so I don't care anymore about these green leaves in my carpet about the d**h of an historical figure about your voice. you were thinking about a red curtain that we might hide behind. I was thinking about the freedom of your shadow, last night, when this livid sky unfolded its vault of a thousand swords and the air we were breathing seemed our own I'm glad that you're able to breathe I'm glad that you're able to distinguish me from the lights along the thruway I mean don't both of us illuminate the direction which you are taking? and don't both weep nervously above the moist pavement where you move. I'd like to watch myself holding you over the cool shore of something really vast like a vast sea, or ocean. and when I was done watching I'd become someone else, seducing the heavy waters, allowing nothing to change as the sands are changing and night comes and we're not aware of all this endlessness which is springing up like The Moonlight Sonata ascending from the glare of a thousand frightened moans