She should have rented this apartment in the Mortal City The cold comes though every crack she puts her up to The broken so she has to use electric heat
And was the first date with the brother Of the guy she worked to He lived a couple streets away, he listened, he had to say She him up for dinner sometime, sometime was tonight
The gave updates on the ice storm while she made the dinner They said all the talk you shouldn't drive or even walk and this just in We're asking everyone to turn off their power, need it at the hospital
She ran around plugs, then she called him up Maybe now they shouldn't meet, he said he would brave the streets She met him at the door a blanket and a candle Saying, "I heard it on the radio, I had to turn my off"
He said, "You're not the only one, the streets were dark It was like century With dim lamps and candles up the icy trees And the and a covered moon"
She said, "What kind of people a city where you can't see the sky And you can't the ground? I tell you something, I have this feeling that city's dying" He said, "It's not dying, the people who are dying"
She said, "Yes yes, I think the people are dying and cares We had all this technology, our dreams bold and vague And then one got bad planners, one city 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, no one I can talk to And I even know your brother"
He smiled and said, "Sometimes at I walk out by the river The city's one big town, the water turns it down People found this because they love other people They want their secretaries, they want their lunches"
"And about tonight, I heard the same newscast you did I unplugged everything, I looked out the window and I the city heard I as one by one the lights went off So they could give power to the hospital"
They ate in silence while she thought over They sat together in a dark room in the City Shifting in their blankets so they wouldn't get spaghetti on
came the awkward moment after dinner, what to do The ice was still falling, the streets were still The cabs not running and this neighborhood was not the greatest
They looked at the space where a couch would've been She her stomach sink, she felt like she could hardly think
She said, "I never should have this apartment in the Mortal City The cold comes every crack I put my hand up to The radiator work, I have to use electric heat"
That settled it, they both sleep in her bed, it was a matter of survival She brought out teeshirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, socks, If there was ever any thought of would happen in that bed tonight
There was no question now, they could move They were wrapped up like ornaments waiting for season
They lay in bed, they to the pelting ice He said, "My not a bad guy, he's just quiet I wished you liked city", she said, "Maybe I do"
"I think I have a kind of hearing tonight I hear the neighbors upstairs, I hear my heart I hear one hearts beating at the hospital"
And one thousand hearts by their waiting Saying that's my love in the white We are not lost in the Mortal We are not lost in the Mortal