Don't stand there in the rain
There's still too much to say
It's later than we are
It's earlier enough
To see what's further on
Is still to know your time
And someday we'll be gone
As older days are by
Your city is divine
Its metal burns my eyes
The water now by night
Is brighter than the light
It hurts to know you're near
Enough to be alone
You'll see the summer here
I'll have my winter home
The world's a greater place
Than we will ever know
The hardest hungers here
The tailor's trousers torn
There's still so much to see
We never reach the end
I'm grateful for a friend
Whose failings are my own
If genius can be found,
Then it abides in you:
The canniness of dream,
The softness of your stride
You called for night; it fell
You cry in darkness now
We clamber up the hill
We sleep beside the wall
If nothing can be known
Then you must know it well
To speak is stranger still
To tell the truth is hell
And yet, despite the pain
You give the world your all
We hear the rain must fall
We know - yet you remain.
