you were lying in bed
next to my piano
and they were gonna wheel you
to the nearest hospital
but you only made it to the subway station
where you told me that i'm wiser than you
i know a lot
but i don't know
i know

and you told me in confidence
that we both spoke Portugese
a secret that I never knew we had
and it rolled off my tongue
like a tumbleweed
i watched it go round and round
and round and round
the yard

suddenly you turned into
a man i didn't know
your futures were bright
your skin was dark
your hair was short
and he said "Ma'am you better
get yourself out of this station
where everyone's sick and falling apart
and changing like its fall"

and he said "you have always been on the way
to new york
and why was i wasting all my time?
cause i'm supposed to be
a lot smarter than this
but its a trap that's set
on every street corner outside my house

and i think that we knew it all along
oh, i think that we knew it all along
i think that we knew it all along.