For a Moment

They tore up the asphalt to repave the street And revealed the old trolley car tracks Two bright lines of steel that emerged from the pavement Like fossils dug up from the past I could see them I could touch them Just for a moment and then they were gone The power went out on the fourteenth of August And the children of Brooklyn saw stars Orion's bright arrows were raining from heaven As radiant beams from afar We could see them We could touch them Just for a moment and then they were gone Oh, we could see them We could touch them Just for a moment and then they were gone The cloud cover lifts, the kaleidoscope shifts And a red velvet curtain is drawn The silence is broken, the truth it is spoken One moment before it is gone That's when I see it That's when I feel it That's when I know it Just for a moment You sat on the bed, you buttoned your shirt As the stars faded out of the sky And there in the doorway you switched on the hall light And something had changed in your eyes I could see it Just for a moment and then it was gone Just for a moment, and then you were gone Just for a moment and then we are gone Oh, we can see it We can feel it Just for a moment and then we are gone Oh, we can see it We can feel it Just for a moment and then we are gone