Cincinnati Lyrics

I'll take the A train to get to your place

Inch down Nostrand in the night

Past the bars, bodegas, hole-in-the-walls

With steaming trays of beans and yellow rice

These are the possibilities all around me

Particularities in movement and color

The band plays in the basement next to the boiler

The ceiling touches my head

A musty couch, stickers in the bathroom

When they're done I ask where, where they're off to next

These are the possibilities all around me

Particularities in shapes, sounds and luster

You see the road leading home

That takes me with you to Cincinnati

Then there was a doorway I had to walk through

Had to listen to a song just to distract me

East coast, west coast mirrored in the water

Which you drink and I regret

What I mean to say is these mountains exist

In a green Virginia summer without cause

Still there was a way you wanted so clearly

The look when no one else is home

You live on a wide one-way street

Far away from home

I must admit, I should've told you

I was living somewhere, somewhere in between

This is the only possibility for me

A particular kind of indecision

You see the road leading home

That takes me with you to Cincinnati

Then there was a doorway I had to walk through

Had to listen to a song just to distract me

East coast, west coast mirrored in the water

Which you drink and I regret

What I mean to say is these mountains exist

In a green Virginia summer without cause

Still there was a way you wanted so clearly

The look when no one else

The look when no one

Look when no one

The look when no one else

The look when no one

The look when no one

The look when no one else is home