Mortal City-Dar Williams

[ti:Mortal City] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:Mortal City] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.81]She never should have rented [00:02.38]This apartment in the mortal city [00:05.42] [00:06.34]The cold comes though [00:07.41] [00:07.97]Evey crack she puts her hand up to [00:10.41] [00:10.97]The radiator's broken [00:12.11] [00:13.08]So she has to use electric heat [00:15.46] [00:16.03]And tonight was the first date with [00:18.41]The brother of the guy she worked next to [00:21.73]He lived a couple streets away [00:23.06] [00:23.66]He listened he had things to say [00:26.07]She asked him up for dinner sometime [00:27.62] [00:29.06]Sometime was tonight [00:30.27] [00:36.55]The radio gave updates on the ice storm [00:39.67]While she made the dinner [00:40.93] [00:41.92]They said from all the talk [00:43.17] [00:44.01]You shouldn't drive or even walk [00:45.86] [00:46.57]And this just in we're asking everyone [00:50.62] [00:51.32]To turn off their power [00:53.05] [00:53.99]They need it at the hostpital [00:56.38] [01:01.16]She ran around pulling plugs [01:03.21] [01:03.87]Then she called him up [01:04.93] [01:06.20]Maybe now they shouldn't meet [01:07.38] [01:08.64]He said that he would brave the streets [01:10.63] [01:11.14]She met him at the door [01:12.16] [01:12.90]With a blanket and a candle [01:14.40] [01:15.43]Saying I heard it on the radio [01:17.41] [01:18.40]I had to turn my power off [01:20.61] [01:25.54]He said you're not the only one [01:26.80] [01:28.07]The streets were dark tonight [01:29.11] [01:30.51]It was like another century [01:32.55]With dim lamps and candles lighting up [01:35.63]The icy trees and the clouds and a covered moon [01:39.40] [01:42.26]She said what kind of people make a city [01:45.41] [01:46.14]Where you can't see the sky [01:47.69]And you can't feel the ground [01:48.89] [01:51.01]I tell you something [01:51.73] [01:52.40]I have this feeling that this city's dying [01:54.75] [01:56.00]He said it's not dying [01:57.08] [01:57.87]It's the people who are dying [01:59.57] [02:00.16]She said yes yes I think [02:03.03]The people are dying [02:04.13]And nobody cares [02:06.08] [02:11.38]We had all this technology [02:12.32] [02:13.92]Our dreams were bold and vague [02:15.76]And then one city got bad planners [02:20.95] [02:21.71]One city got the plague [02:25.01] [02:34.72]He asked why did you move here [02:37.01] [02:38.08]She said for the job [02:39.17] [02:40.99]For the job [02:41.87]And I've been so lonely here so lonely [02:46.53] [02:47.56]There's no one I can talk to [02:49.27] [02:49.96]You know I don't even know your brother [02:51.72] [02:59.81]He smiled and said [03:00.65] [03:01.25]Sometimes at night I walk out by the river [03:03.67] [03:04.83]The city's one big town [03:05.99] [03:06.86]The water turns it upside down [03:08.92] [03:09.86]People found [03:10.40]This city because they love other people [03:13.05] [03:14.14]They want their secretaries [03:15.76] [03:16.51]They want their power lunches [03:18.09] [03:26.34]And think about tonight [03:27.26] [03:28.01]I heard the same newscast you did [03:30.02] [03:31.43]I unplugged everything [03:32.32] [03:33.44]I looked out the window [03:34.62] [03:35.53]And I think the city heard [03:37.01] [03:38.91]I watched as one by one the lights went off [03:42.09]So they could give their power to the hospital [03:44.86] [03:53.20]They ate in silence while she thought this over [03:56.60] [03:58.14]They sat together in a dark room in the mortal city [04:02.53]Shifting in their blankets so [04:04.97]They wouldn't get spaghetti on them [04:07.16] [04:13.32]Then came the awkward moment after dinner [04:16.04] [04:16.84]What to do [04:17.38] [04:18.48]The ice was still falling the streets were still dangerous [04:22.66]The cabs were not running [04:24.01] [04:25.08]And this neighborhood was not the greatest [04:27.27] [04:28.77]They both looked [04:29.60]At the space where a couch would've been [04:31.93] [04:33.62]She felt her stomach sink [04:35.04] [04:35.90]She felt like she could hardly think [04:37.65] [04:42.54]She said I never should have rented [04:44.83]This apartment in the mortal city [04:47.74] [04:48.88]The cold comes through eve crack I put my hand up to [04:52.65] [04:53.34]The radiator doesn't work I have to use electric heat [04:57.44] [04:59.43]That settled it they would both sleep in her bed [05:02.22] [05:02.81]It was a matter of survival [05:04.02] [05:08.08]She brought out teeshirts sweatshirts [05:10.24] [05:10.98]Sweatpants socks hats [05:14.10] [05:15.62]If there was ever any thought of [05:18.15]What would happen in that bed tonight [05:19.93] [05:21.61]There wa no question now [05:22.62] [05:24.08]They could barely move [05:25.02] [05:25.83]They were wrapped up like ornaments waiting [05:27.70] [05:28.98]For another season [05:30.08] [05:36.73]They lay in bed they listened to the pelting ice [05:40.36] [05:42.01]He said my brother's not a bad guy he's just quiet [05:45.18] [05:47.30]I wished you liked this city [05:48.27] [05:50.83]She said maybe I do [05:52.55] [05:56.97]I think I have a special kind of hearing tonight [05:59.81] [06:02.16]I hear the neighbors upstairs [06:04.59]I hear my heart beating [06:06.03] [06:07.73]I hear one thousand hearts beating at the hospital [06:15.25] [06:22.48]And one thousand hearts by their bedsides waiting [06:31.01] [06:35.27]Saying that's my love in the white gown [06:44.91] [06:51.58]We are not lost in the mortal city [06:54.96] [06:56.56]We are not lost in the mortal city [07:02.19] [07:03.06]Mortal City - Dar Williams