Amsterdam

Amsterdam is happy to see me She greets me with a pinch of misery Through the rain I watch her reappear She cries with every inch that I draw near I still hear your distant siren song Where I'd race the wind to cross the pond Where you would await to take my hand So you could love a boy into a man I walk along the old canal The red lights on I drop a coin into the well So I might hear you say again "Oh boy, I wonder how it ends" I'm going to my mother's old café Where she would work when I was on the way Oh Amsterdam would hold her for 8 years And when I came, we dried her ocean tears I'm turning every corner of my past Clouded by the trails of burning grass Where I once found a taste of happiness Waiting neath your moonlit, scarlet dress I walk along the old canal The market glows I know these streets, I know them well And there I see you once again Why can't we dream as beautifully as then? I know now how it ends I know now how it ends I know now how it ends We know now how it ends