[01:08.51]Well I'll be damned
[01:11.11]Here comes your ghost again
[01:14.21]But that's not unusual
[01:17.90]It's just that the moon is full
[01:20.86]And you happened to call
[01:25.25]And here I sit, hand on the telephone
[01:31.31]Hearing a voice I'd known
[01:34.46]A couple of light years ago
[01:37.97]Heading straight for a fall
[01:45.45]
[01:45.47]As I remember your eyes
[01:47.07]Were bluer than robin's eggs
[01:51.35]My poetry was lousy you said
[01:54.84]Where are you calling from
[01:57.65]A booth in the midwest
[02:09.09]Ten years ago
[02:11.01]I bought you some cufflinks
[02:14.40]You brought me something
[02:17.57]We both know
[02:18.47]what memories can bring
[02:20.58]They bring diamonds and rust
[02:43.29]
[02:43.30]Well you burst on the scene
[02:45.40]Already a legend
[02:48.86]The unwashed phenomenon
[02:51.85]The original vagabond
[02:55.15]You strayed into my arms
[02:59.59]And there you stayed
[03:01.71]Temporarily lost at sea
[03:05.05]The Madonna was yours for free
[03:08.25]Yes the girl on the half-shell
[03:11.87]Would keep you unharmed
[03:18.68]
[03:18.69]Now I see you standing
[03:20.82]With brown leaves falling around
[03:21.88]And snow in your hair
[03:25.67]Now you're smiling out the window
[03:26.89]Of that crummy hotel
[03:27.90]Over Washington Square
[03:32.02]Our breath comes out white clouds
[03:34.00]Mingles and hangs in the air
[03:38.23]Speaking strictly for me
[03:40.43]We both could have died then and there
[04:02.01]
[04:02.02]Now you're telling me
[04:04.42]You're not nostalgic
[04:07.37]Then give me another word for it
[04:11.06]You who are so good with words
[04:14.14]And at keeping things vague
[04:18.18]Because I need some of that vagueness now
[04:20.32]It's all come back too clearly
[04:23.75]Yes I loved you dearly
[04:27.04]And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
[04:30.48]I've already paid
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