Sing along to the official instrumental track for “The Wanting Of You” from
the album ALPHABET CITY CYCLE, featuring music by Georgia Stitt and lyrics by Marcy Heisler!
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Sheet Music:
https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0074654
THE WANTING OF YOU
(The Student on Avenue B)
I’m walking in my head down on Avenue B
As the echo of a guitar strums
Tightening my overcoat
And waiting for contentment
Like a bus that never comes
Crushing my hat over angry hair
I beg my pocket for a cigarette
And instead I find a nickel
And a crumpled little napkin
With a poem for a lover I need to forget…
The wanting of you
It colors everything I do
It’s in my house and in my bed
It’s there in every tear I shed
When I don’t think I’ll make it through
The wanting of you
It is my unsurrendered prayer
I trace your hands upon my skin
How did I dare to let you in
It’s almost more than I can bear
The wanting of you
I patronize myself as I take my chair
In the couldn't care less café
Accept the silent greeting of the mother with the baby
And the model with the black shar pei
There's a NYU kid who raises one lid
Then goes right back to his thousand page book…
And I spend another morning tracing stories in the oatmeal
That some Spanish guy did not remember to cook…
The wanting of you
It wakes me up at half past two
With long gone shadows I converse
I think it can’t get any worse
But how I know that isn’t true
The wanting of you
It is a neverending storm
I wear it everywhere I go
Just like a coat that doesn’t know
That it’s supposed to keep me warm.
You
Knocking on my door, stumbling over words
Laughing at my jokes, losing wallets
You
Never getting mad, sort of getting mad, never understanding
Understanding everything
You
Absolutely right
Absolutely wrong
Everything that matters…
Nothing but a song
Nothing but a song
I step into the bath round a quarter past three
Let the water ease my wounded pride
I wash away my sorrow with a promise of tomorrow
But the water doesn't let me hide…
The clock on the wall says go ahead stall
You’re entitled to a way to cope…
And I wonder if it isn’t really loneliness that kills you
I think people really die of hope
The wanting of you
It colors everything I do
It’s in my house and in my bed
It’s there in every tear I shed
When I don’t think I’ll make it through
The wanting of you
It is my unsurrendered prayer
I trace your hands upon my skin
How did I dare to let you in
It’s almost more than I can bear
I trace your hands upon my skin
How did I dare to let you in
It’s almost more than I can bear
The wanting of you.
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Lyrics by MARCY HEISLER
Music by GEORGIA STITT
Produced by JEFFREY LESSER
Recorded 2/19/04 at RPM Studios in NYC
Kate Baldwin, soprano
Victoria Paterson, violin
Georgia Stitt, piano
© 2004 Marcyworks and Geocate Music (ASCAP)
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