Laurie Anderson - Washington Street lyrics

It's midnight downtown it's been
Raining for days rain beats down
It covers the streets with
It's sparkling skin

In the deli purple light
A woman in a party dress pays for some milk
Yellow cab stops for a light
Two men in black hats are running
A messenger on a bike

Pile drivers pounding they've set
Up some lights
They're digging a hole it's filling
Up with black water rainy days rainy nights
Steam rises, covers the city

Pieces of old newspaper float
Like paper boats
They slide along the rushing
Water in the gutter

Rainy days rainy nights
Rain falls down and covers the city

It falls from fabulous heights
Covers the streets with it's sparkling skin

And over on Jane street they're
Shooting that movie again
They just can't seem to get it right

Behind a warehouse in a burned out building
A man is sleeping in a cardboard
Box on a pile of salt

Rainy days rainy nights
Rain falls down and covers the city

It falls from fabulous heights
Covers the streets with it's sparkling skin

A man on a park bench
He sit's in the pouring rain