4th and Broadway - The American Scene

Keeping track of time

At Fourth and Broadway

And I’ve been waiting 26 years

For someone to tell me that I’m,

That I’m not really gonna die this time

And why it’s only ever hard for me to change

When I really want to

I couldn’t call you, so I was smoking

Cigarettes on our front porch last night

I was thinking about the night we

Sat in my car at the Berkeley Marina

And we talked each other down,

And we talked each other down

Calm and careful

Sleeping off you leaving

And I’ve been numbering the days

This one’s dragging on and on

And what I’m trying here to say is

I’m not quite as suited to taking care of me

As I try to make it seem

When you’re around

I couldn’t call you, so I was smoking

Cigarettes on our front porch last night

I was thinking about the night we

Sat in my car at the Berkeley Marina

And we talked each other down,

And we talked each other down

Keeping track of time

In the same place I was last night

In the same place I was, in the same place I was…

Keeping track of time

In the same place I was last night

In the same place I was, in the same place I was…

I couldn’t call you, so I was smoking

Cigarettes on our front porch last night

I was thinking about the night we

Sat in my car at the Berkeley Marina

And we talked each other down,

And we talked each other down