They build wooden houses on frozen ponds In the summertime when the water's gone Diagonal lines in their rolled-out lawns And the sage always smells so pretty But nobody cares where the birds have gone When the rain comes down on Babylon The stonemason's phone rings all day long And you gotta get back to the city I'll build my house up on this rock, baby, every day with you There's nothin' in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden and you out on your walk Is all the distance this poor girl can take Without listenin' to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock It's you and me on the rock I built paper planes when I learned to fly Like a 747 fallin' out of the sky I folded 'em crooked and now I'm wonderin' why I could always end up in the water But nobody's askin' why she lookin' so thin Why she's laughin' too hard, why she's drinkin' again A falling star, she's a paper plane And she was goin' down when you caught her I'll build my house up on this rock, baby, every day with you There's nothin' in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden and you out on your walk Is all the distance this poor girl can take Without listenin' to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock It's an earthquake, it's a hard wind It's a record-breakin' tide and it is rollin' in It's a big sea, but it can't touch you and me It's just a water view and what a view, ooh I don't need their money, baby (I don't need their money, baby) It's you and me on the rock (you and me on the rock) It's you and me on the rock I'll build my house up on this rock, baby, every day with you There's nothin' in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden and you out on your walk Is all the distance this old girl can take Without listenin' to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock It's you and me on the rock (you and me on the rock) I don't need their money, baby (I don't need their money, baby) It's you and me on the rock (it's you and me on the rock) You and me on the rock It's you and me (it's you and me), you and me on the rock

Look hard the city is gone Black days and a dying sun Dream a dream of god lit air Just for a minute you'll find me there So look harder and you'll find Forty ways it leaves us blind I need a better place to burn beside the lines Come on and let me try Are you lost in the world like me? If the systems have failed are you free? All the things, all the loss, can you see? Are you lost in the world like me? Like me Burn a courtyard, say it's done Throwing knives at a dying sun A source of love in the god lit air Just for a minute, I'll find you there So look harder and you'll find The forty ways it leaves us blind I need a better way to burn beside the lines Come on and let me try Are you lost in the world like me? If the systems have failed are you free? All the things, all the loss, can you see? Are you lost in the world like me? Like me Are you lost in the world like me? If the systems have failed are you free? All the things, all the loss, can you see? Are you lost in the world like me? Like me (If the systems have failed) (If the systems have failed) (If the systems have failed) (If the systems have failed) (If the systems have failed)

I was driving down Ninth Avenue As the sky was getting dark Didn't have nothin' else to do So I kept on riding to Battery Park I stepped out in the damp and misty night As the fog was rolling in Man said, "Last boat leaving tonight Is the boat for Ellis Island" As my feet touched solid ground I felt a chill run down my spine I could almost hear the sound Of thousands pushing through the lines Mothers and bewildered wives That sailed across the raging sea Others running for their lives To the land of opportunity Down on Ellis Island "What is this strange paradise?" They must've wondered through their cries and moans After all they've sacrificed Their faith, their families, friends and homes Then on the Inspection Stairs They were counted out or counted in Frozen while the inspectors stared Down on Ellis Island Now me I only stumbled in Just to wander around that empty hall Where someone else's fate had been Decided in no time at all And cases filled with hats and clothes And the belongings of those who journeyed far They're strange reminders I suppose Of where we're from and who we are But as the boat pulled off the shore I could see the fog was lifting And lights I never seen before Were shining down on Ellis Island Shining down on Ellis Island