The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

Smeared black ink

Your face is ashen and I'm barely listening

To last demands

I'm staring at the asphalt wondering

What's buried underneath

Where I am

Where I am

I'll wear my badge

A vinyl sticker with big block letters adherent to my chest

Tells your new friends

I am a visitor here

I am not permanent

And the only thing

Keeping me dry is

Where I am (You seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment complex)

Where I am (A stranger with your door key explaining that I am just visiting)

Where I am (And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving)

(Why I was the one worth leaving)

D.C. sleeps alone tonight

D.C. sleeps alone tonight

Where I am (You seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment complex)

Where I am (A stranger with your door key explaining that I am just visiting)

Where I am (And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving)

(Why I was the one worth leaving)

The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights (where I am)

And leave the autos swerving into the loneliest evening (where I am)

And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving

Why I was the one worth leaving

Why I was the one worth leaving

Why I was the one worth leaving