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CITY IS EMPTY

The city is empty
the bars are closed
the streets are deserted
I’m wearing your clothes
The shirt that you left me
is a bit too small
I could see your body through it
a boy grown tall
I reach inside to touch you
my knuckles on your skin
but you’re not here to feel it
+ it’s only me that I am with

Oh Jeffery
what am I supposed to do?
Be strong or fall apart
Go out + find someone new?

The streets are deserted
the bars are closed
the city is empty
I’m wearing your clothes

My friends say that
I’m in love with love
& that marriage is a sin
But I never hurt one single boy
then again, maybe I did

Oh the streets are deserted
the bars are closed
the city is empty
I’m wearing your clothes
the shirt that you left me
is a bit too small
I could see your body through it
a boy grown tall

They say that home is where your are
well tonight I’m homeless + blue
We knew this town like the back of our hand
and now I’m lost without you

Oh the streets are deserted, the bars are closed
the city is empty,I’m wearing your clothes
the shirt that you left me is a bit too small
I could see your body through it, a boy grown tall
I reach inside to touch you, my knuckles on yr skin,
but yr not here to feel it + it’s only me that I am with

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from RICK BERLIN LIVE @ JACQUES, track released June 14, 1997
Rick Berlin LIVE@JACQUES (GarageDog) 1997. Recorded + mixed by Dan Cantor (w/ help from Jeff Berkowitz) over 5 consecutive Monday nights at Jacques Cabaret (the oldest drag bar in the country). Placed mikes over the pool table, in the main room, near the dressing room door. Who played: Tyson Montgomery Leonard (electric violin), Chris Mehl (harp), Jonah Sachs (cello), Dan Cantor (harp), Chet Cahill (accordion), Marnie Given (violin), Charles Isenberg (mc).

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A giant on the Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting + strong stage presence have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970s. He continues to make music w/ intelligence + integrity, building an international reputation around his knotty, singular piano playing, straight-from-the-heart singing and a style of character-based songwriting that's drawn comparisons to Waits + Cohen ... more

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