Dreamlessly lyrics

Old grey-haired waitresses

In cafes at night

Have given it up,

And as i walk down sidewalks of light

And look into windows of nursing homes

I can see that it is no longer with them.

I see people sitting on park benches

And i can see by the way they sit and look

That it is gone.

I see people driving cars

And I see by the way

They drive their cars

That they neither love nor are loved –

Nor do they consider sex.

It is all forgotten

Like an old movie.

I see people in department stores and supermarkets

Walking down aisles

Buying things

And i can see by the way their clothing

Fits them and by the way they walk

And by their faces and their eyes

That they care for nothing

And that nothing cares for them.

I see a hundred people a day

Who have given up entirely.

If I go to the racetrack or a sporting event

I can see thousands that feel for nothing

Or no one

And get no feeling back.

Everywhere I see those who

Crave nothing but food, shelter, and clothing;

They concentrate on that,

Dreamlessly

I do not understand why these people do not

vanish

I do not understand why these people do not

expire

Why the clouds do not murder them

Or why the dogs do not murder them

Or why the flowers and the children do not murder them,

I do not understand.

I suppose they are murdered

Yet i can’t adjust to the

Fact of them

Because they are so many.

Each day,

Each night,

There are more of them

In the subways and

In the buildings and

In the parks

They feel no terror

At not loving

Or at not

Being loved

So many many many

Of my fellow creatures