Somewhere in a quiet little nook of this city
Slipping into something
That's a little less like a disguise
You are not alone here
Open up your eyes

We cannot sleep
We'll just hold our breath tonight
Two strangers
Hope don't matter
It don't matter
Time will pulse on
And tomorrow will come and go
Or at least I've been told so
Two strangers
Lost and lonely
Only nightcap strange strangers

Letting go of a dream
Waking up from a dream
Waking up from a half-remembered mid-November dream
And somewhere out in Brooklyn
You're alone and you're drinking
Soaking up the feeling
That you never felt nothing at all
Whiskey makes you brood
But that's your kind of mood

Oh, we cannot sleep
We'll just hold our breath tonight
Two strangers
Hope don't matter
It don't matter
Time will pulse on
And tomorrow will come and go
We'll be trudging through the snow
Two strangers
Lost and lonely
Only nightcap strange strangers

Letting go of a dream
Waking up from a dream
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And then it's over
Just another mistake done over
There's no evidence here
No mark or picture frame
Just a name
In a cell phone
Stuck in my head
Smelling boy in my empty twin bed
Or maybe I'm just conjuring some romance I read

This was not so magical
You didn't impress me
Not at all
No
No
Not even a little bit
You were something I wanted to try
And we were happy
For a while

Just like in a dream one late night
Tumbling toward winter
In a perfect autumn luminescent light
You held me tight
That was all I ever could have asked for

We'll just hold our breath tonight
Two strangers
Two strangers
We cannot sleep
We'll just hold our breath tonight
Two strangers
Hope don't matter
It don’t matter
It don't matter
Oh, oh...
Lost and lonely
Only nightcap strangers
Lost and lonely
Only nightcap strange strangers
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