Linda & Stuart letra

Linda and Stuart, trapped in their apartment
Seventy-ninth and Madison, the one they bought
Fifty years ago. No fancy lobby, no baroque Fresco

The deliverymen, in their light blue surgical masks
Knock twice, leave groceries double-bagged at the door
Then cross the street back to the shop and the basement below

Last week I called and asked, “How’s your relative stock of despair, today? ”
Linda replied, saying, “Gabriel, I know I really shouldn’t complain
But each month this persists is one that we’re not getting back
For we’ve little time left on this spinning marble. ”
Her point of view I can’t dismiss and what is there to say, in fact?
So I'm left with hollow platitudes to mumble

Straining to hear a few bars of the Upper East Side
I find I’ve not allowed myself, haven’t really had the time
To miss New York, the freak show light

That universe of regret that I keep locked in a wooden box
With all the other thoughts and self-pity
Maybe sometime yet I’ll hop a plane and catch a taxi
Downtown, just to hear the sound of the old city

Sirens and the subway and the slurred words of the shirt-sleeved men
On the town to toast the close of a deal
That shuttered the last factory in every town
In Michigan, where the union boys are stone-faced at the wheel

Linda tells me she’s taking a writing class
On the art of the short story, and I say, hey that’s great, ’cause
We all need a way to make sense of the world

Gabriel Kahane - Letras

• 7 Middagh
• 8980
• Ambassador Hotel (3400 Wilshire Blvd.)
• Arnold Corrects The Papers While My Grandmother Washes His Children
• Baedeker
• Baltimore
• Barn Song (feat. Brad Mehldau)
• Black Garden (2673 Dundee Pl.)
• Bradbury (304 Broadway)
• Calabash & Catamaran
• Charming Disease
• Chemex
• Die Traumdeutung
• Durrants
• Empire Liquor Mart (9127 S. Figueroa St.)
• Friends Of Friends Of Bill
• Fughetta
• Great Lakes
• Griffith Park (2800 E. Observatory Ave.)
• Hot Pink Raingear
• Icebox
• Interlude
• Keene
• LA
• Last Dance
• Linda & Stuart
• Little Love
• Magnificent Bird
• Merritt Pkwy
• Model Trains
• Musso and Frank (6667 Hollywood Blvd​.​)
• North Adams (feat. Timo Andres)
• November
• October 1, 1939 / Port Of Hamburg
• Parts Of Speech
• Rochester (feat. Sam Amidon)
• Side Streets
• Singing With a Stranger
• Sit Shiva
• Slow Down (feat. Sufjan Stevens)
• Slumlord Crocodile (115 E. 3rd St​.​)
• The Basement Engineer
• The Faithful
• The Hazelnut Tree
• To Be American
• Twice In The Night
• Underberg
• Union Station (800 N. Alameda St.)
• Veda (1 Pierce Dr.)
• Villains (4616 Dundee Dr.)
• Villanelles (feat. Chris Thile)
• We Are The Saints
• What If I Told You
• Where Are The Arms
• Wie Soll Ich Dich Empfangen
• Winter Song