Drops From The Faucet-Nanci Griffith

[ti:Drops From The Faucet] [ar:Nanci Griffith] [al:Ruby's Torch] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Drops From The Faucet - Nanci Griffith (南西·葛瑞芬) [00:14.16]Drops from the faucet like a nervous heart [00:18.82] [00:20.99]Beat on my porcelain sink a rhythm avant-garde [00:26.58] [00:27.47]I page through the phone book reach for my fountain pen [00:32.40] [00:34.09]Is he comin' in for the holidays to haunt me again [00:39.51] [00:40.74]I call up Grand Central information please [00:45.96] [00:47.90]Is that nickel line on time [00:51.13]Oh fine [00:52.24] [00:52.78]And it's a hair-do with a wave [00:55.32] [00:57.19]We both forgot and forgave last time [01:02.26] [01:07.37]Peddlar of pots and pans down on Union Square [01:12.35] [01:12.95]Said City Hall wants us off the street [01:16.45]There's no Christmas in the air [01:19.27] [01:20.53]Some high-brows were waiting [01:22.94]Carnation bright lapels [01:25.58] [01:27.14]Their big cars lined the curbs outside those grand hotels [01:33.08] [01:33.89]I passed a marquee Third Avenue [01:38.53] [01:39.47]Ramona with Loretta Young and I swung myself around [01:48.21] [01:50.65]And headed uptown to the train [01:54.03] [02:54.49]So this is New year's eve another year has passed [02:59.68] [03:01.19]We wait so patiently still they come and go so fast [03:07.05] [03:07.82]I stand on this platform wait for that basket of light [03:12.77] [03:13.76]And the sound of the whistle screamin' out [03:16.48]Like some hot trumpet in the night [03:19.84] [03:21.42]And as I'm waitin' I wonder why and where [03:28.09] [03:28.68]And what went wrong [03:31.84]But this song don't tell no lies [03:35.91] [03:38.58]It was just a quick good-bye yeah