I Wish You Weren't in New York City

from Let The Ink Stain the Dye by WKJ Anderson

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I've never walked on these ashen clouds
But someone's hung up the moon above us
My brother's driving with a smile on his face
You nearly wrap your arms around me

Can we meet up when we're both much older?
When I've realised that we have no fate
You'll still look good no doubt
I'll tell you my sorrow
How Norman seemed to change
How I've wasted all my days
Wish you'd never gone away
To New York City

I fall asleep in these Russian garments
Fyodor has left me here for sleeping
I'm not his double nor is he my keeper
We share a bed
Neither of us really rest

I picture you in your Brooklyn bedroom
Or stashed in Queens with your poetry
Manhattan's eye is your private seer
The Atlantic is your sea
I'm but shingle on an English Beach
Wishing you'd never gone away
To New York City

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from Let The Ink Stain the Dye, released September 21, 2014

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