She never should have this apartment in the Mortal City The cold comes though every crack she her hand up to The radiator's broken so she has to use heat
And tonight was the first date with the Of the guy she next to He lived a couple away, he listened, he had things to say She him up for dinner sometime, sometime was tonight
The radio updates on the ice storm while she made the dinner They said from all the talk you shouldn't or even walk and this just in We're asking everyone to turn off their power, they it at the hospital
She ran around plugs, then she called him up Maybe now they shouldn't meet, he said that he would the streets She met him at the door a blanket and a candle Saying, "I heard it on the radio, I had to my power off"
He said, "You're not the only one, the streets dark tonight It was like another With dim and candles lighting up the icy trees And the clouds and a moon"
She said, "What of people make a city where you can't see the sky And you can't feel the I tell you something, I have this feeling that city's dying" He said, "It's not dying, it's the who are dying"
She said, "Yes yes, I the people are dying and nobody cares We had all this technology, our dreams were and vague And then one city got bad planners, one got the plague"
He asked, "Why did you here?" She said, "For the job, for the job And I've been so lonely here, so lonely, there's no one I can to And I don't know your brother"
He smiled and said, "Sometimes at night I walk out by the The one big town, the water turns it upside down found this city because they love other people They want secretaries, they want their power lunches"
"And think about tonight, I heard the newscast you did I unplugged everything, I looked out the window and I think the city I watched as one by one the lights off So they could give their to the hospital"
They ate in silence while she thought over They sat together in a dark in the Mortal City Shifting in blankets so they wouldn't get spaghetti on them
Then came the awkward moment after dinner, to do The ice was falling, the streets were still dangerous The cabs not running and this neighborhood was not the greatest
They both looked at the space where a couch would've She felt her stomach sink, she felt like she hardly think
She said, "I never should have rented this apartment in the City The cold comes through crack I put my hand up to The radiator doesn't work, I have to use heat"
That settled it, they would sleep in her bed, it was a matter of survival She out teeshirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, socks, hats If there was ever any of what would happen in that bed tonight
was no question now, they could barely move They were wrapped up ornaments waiting for another season
They lay in bed, they listened to the ice He said, "My brother's not a bad guy, he's just I you liked this city", she said, "Maybe I do"
"I I have a special kind of hearing tonight I hear the neighbors upstairs, I hear my beating I hear one thousand hearts at the hospital"
And one thousand hearts by their bedsides Saying that's my love in the gown We are not lost in the Mortal We are not lost in the City