Every day, several times a day, a thought comes over me
I owe more debts than I ever can pay back more money than I'll ever see

I walk around the streets of Coney Island
I look through the windows of every store
I peep through the hallways and the doorways and I think of this debt I owe

I feel like a piece of crushed wreckage, some smashed car in a salvage yard
A vision of an old newspaper blown across an old navy yard
A curbstone chipped and beaten, a piece of gum stuck to a shoe
An empty pack of used matches, an empty version of you

People stroll and they saunter like papercups thrown in the trash
They're crawling all over the sidewalks, their wallets stuck in their pants
And it comes over me like a mist rising, a fog falling over a ship
The bell is ringing out danger, but it's too late to cancel this trip

I see the mist rising before me, my hand reappears by my face
By my waist a cold empty pocket, on my wrist the tears from your face
And I think of what I thought this cold morning, it's the same thing I'm thinking at three
I owe more than I can ever pay back, more than I'll ever see

I think of what I thought this cold morning, I think of what I'm thinking at three
At ten and at midnight the same damn thing, I wish this debt was about money