Henry Hudson

Meet me where the sidewalk ends

There’s a bust of Von Humboldt, and a hot dog stand

We can cut through the park or walk the museum

Look at stolen goods on stolen land

Everything seems the same to me

I don’t know what I come back here expecting to see

Since I told myself I was sick of this city

Everything looks the same to me

But where is the girl in the white velcro tennis shoes

Climbing an empty green bench

Where is the man who would rush home from work

Just to push her along on a swing set

Time, time, time

I’ll stay out your way

If you stay out of mine

Used to see the river from my parents’ apartment

Now its blocked by the sanitation department

Hell’s Kitchen is all new construction

Did you know what you had on your hands Henry Hudson?

Cuz I wrote a paper on you in sixth grade

Creeped me out that your crew formed a mutiny

Left you to die all alone in the bay

You are gone, you are gone

But the water remains

Time, time, time

I’ll stay out your way

If you stay out of mine

I don’t go back to Ohio much anymore

What’s the point, its just where my mother was born

Lots of cornfields and cousins and bales of hay

Trips to target and fast food chains

But where is my short grandpa cleaning his gun

And where, where is the tall one?

His favorite song was Blood on the Saddle

I met him a few times when I was young

And I’m ashamed I was ashamed when I was a kid

Of spending my summers out in their trailer park

Thought I was too good for it, but I wasn’t

Now I can’t even call and tell them I love them

Time, time, time

I’ll stay out your way

If you stay out of mine

Time, time, time

I don’t like the way

I look in your light