Since we can no longer make it girl

I found a new place to live my life

It's really no place at all just a hole in the wall you see

It's cold and dusty but I let it be

Livin here without you on Second Avenue

And since our stars took different paths

I guess I wont be shavin' in your looking glass

Guess my old friendly grin must have started to dim somehow

And I certainly don't need it now

Still I keep smiling through on Second Avenue

I can still see you standing there on the third-floor landing

The day you visited we hardly said a word

Outside it was rainin' you said you couldnt be stayin'

You went back to your flowers and your birds

Since we can no longer see the light

The way we did when we kissed that night

Then all the things that we felt must eventually melt and fade

Like the frost on my window pane

Where I wrote I am you on Second Avenue

I can still see you standing there on the third-floor landing

The day you visited we hardly said a word

Outside it was rainin' you said you couldnt be stayin'

You went back to your flowers and your birds

Since we can no longer see the light

The way we did when we kissed that night

Then all the things that we felt must eventually melt and fade

Like the frost on my window pane

Where I wrote I am you on Second Avenue