Alone (Revisited)

It’s been a long time to your heartAlone here in the dark I asked for rainAll I could find was 8th Avenue Along the well worn pathYou pick up discarded thingsFor the stories they might tellAnd I take the bruisesBecause we put them there I walk the avenue to youIt’s been a long, long time to your heartThe story is the sameDark again, and empty tooWith the words only we know Hoping that somehow this timeThe words will oblige my desperate soulAnd try again to pierce the darkSo that the night does not fall in on meWhen I walk along 8th Avenue