Letras
Twenty years ago tonight
When I was just too young
To grasp it
You were torn so quickly
From this world
I just recall the silent masses
And the asphalt and glasses
I couldn't cry, I couldn't feel
My parched and saltless eyes
Just stared ahead
At the newspapers and the t.v.
And magazines
And winked at stupid jokes
Between my classes
While I thought
Of asphalt and glasses
I've often wondered how you'd feel
About the things you might see today
About AIDS, and computers
And Madonna
About day traders, and day trippers
And fascists
Do they ever think about
Asphalt and glasses?
Asphalt and glasses
My hopeless words are cold and pale
Like lifeless heroes
So perfectly flawed and human
Which we dust off twice a year
To remember
But the recollections everybody stashes
Show up in my head
As asphalt and glasses
Asphalt and glasses
Blood on the pavement
Asphalt and glasses
Blood on the floor
Asphalt and glasses
