| Since we can no longer make it, girl
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| I found a new place to live my life
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| It’s really no place at all, just a hole in the wall, you see
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| It’s cold and dusty but I let it be
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| Livin here without you on Second Avenue
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| And since our stars took different paths
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| I guess I won’t be shavin' in your looking glass
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| Guess my old friendly grin must have started to dim, somehow
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| And I certainly don’t need it now
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| Still, I keep smiling through on Second Avenue
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| I can still see you standing there on the third-floor landing
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| The day you visited we hardly said a word
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| Outside it was rainin', you said you couldn’t be stayin'
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| You went back to your flowers and your birds
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| Since we can no longer see the light
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| The way we did when we kissed that night
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| Then all the things that we felt must eventually melt and fade
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| Like the frost on my window pane
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| Where I wrote, I am you on Second Avenue
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| I can still see you standing there on the third-floor landing
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| The day you visited we hardly said a word
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| Outside it was rainin', you said you couldn’t be stayin'
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| You went back to your flowers and your birds
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| Since we can no longer see the light
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| The way we did when we kissed that night
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| Then all the things that we felt must eventually melt and fade
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| Like the frost on my window pane
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| Where I wrote, I am you on Second Avenue |