This Night

It's summer and I am on an avenue

A street you can still walk at night

It's summer and not cold at all, but strangely I still quiver

Anonymous yet satisfied they walk past each other

It's a cold dark night tonight

A night like every other

It's cold, can't be closed with anything

It's the cold that surrounds us

It's a cold dark night tonight

A night like every other

It's cold, can't be closed with anything

It's the cold that surrounds us daily

I'm on my way to the party by Jacky

It's what's up tonight

"Great, you came" It's all as usual

"How you doing?" but no one cares

And everyone's drinking, cracking, having a blast

So they don't feel the deadly cold around them

He's on a corner of the seventh avenue

Eddi, the nomad of the town

He's just filling his tank with a bottle of wine

Having a good old time with a tear in his eye

Days gone by and hard times brought him here

And every bottle sheds a new tear in his eye

I say: "Hey Ed, it's a cold dark night tonight!"

He laughs, a warm laugh, honest no fake or slight

It warmed me, it follows me through the cold night

It's so easy, it's pleasant to warm the cold night