She never should have rented this apartment in the City The cold comes every crack she puts her hand up to The radiator's broken so she has to use electric
And tonight was the date with the brother Of the guy she worked to He a couple streets away, he listened, he had things to say She asked him up for sometime, sometime was tonight
The radio gave updates on the ice storm while she the dinner They said from all the talk you shouldn't drive or walk and this just in We're asking everyone to turn off power, they need it at the hospital
She ran around pulling plugs, she called him up Maybe now they shouldn't meet, he said that he would brave the She met him at the door with a blanket and a Saying, "I heard it on the radio, I had to my power off"
He said, "You're not the only one, the streets were dark It was another century With dim and candles lighting up the icy trees And the clouds and a moon"
She said, "What kind of people make a where you can't see the sky And you feel the ground? I you something, I have this feeling that this city's dying" He said, "It's not dying, it's the who are dying"
She said, "Yes yes, I think the people are dying and nobody We had all this technology, our dreams were bold and 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 so lonely here, so lonely, there's no one I can talk to And I even know your brother"
He and said, "Sometimes at night I walk out by the river The city's one big town, the turns it upside down People found city because they love other people They want their secretaries, they their power lunches"
"And about tonight, I heard the same newscast you did I everything, I looked out the window and I think the city heard I watched as one by one the went off So could give their power to the hospital"
They ate in silence while she thought this sat together in a dark room 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 a couch would've been She her stomach sink, she felt like she could hardly think
She said, "I never have rented this apartment in the Mortal City The cold comes through every crack I put my up to The radiator doesn't work, I to use electric heat"
That settled it, they would both sleep in her bed, it was a of survival She brought out teeshirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, socks, If there was ever any thought of what happen in that bed tonight
There was no question now, they could barely They were wrapped up like ornaments waiting for season
They lay in bed, listened to the pelting ice He said, "My not a bad guy, he's just quiet I you liked this city", she said, "Maybe I do"
"I think I have a special kind of hearing I hear the neighbors upstairs, I hear my heart I hear one thousand hearts at the hospital"
And one thousand hearts by bedsides waiting Saying that's my love in the gown We are not lost in the Mortal We are not lost in the Mortal