Everywhere and Nowhere

It's been a year of sad disclosure

Of tragic news and visitations

Wwe feel so far from the medication

And taxi rides so high

I wonder how have you been sleeping

Does it still hurt every time you breathe in

Does that old film still make you weep

And are you still dying to believe it

Like so much light in so much darkness

A silver womb where you can hide out

Until the street that brought you harkens

You're so suprised when its still light out

Now your name is cannon fodder

On their tongues its a convolution

No rounded vowels for a gringo daughter

From the cops of the revolution

And if its sickles then its hammers

Or drunken hotel-lobby armchairs

And if its midnight in havana

We must be everywhere and nowhere

So here's a toast to biting the hand that feeds us

And to babstock quotes hanging in the air between us

I'll spin this globe with my little finger (eyes that shine like candles)

You pack your bag and write that letter (light in so much darkness)

We'll see how far the charm can take us (midnight in Havana)

To some place where the coffee's bitter

And jsut like the lights off the highway

Unravel into translucent ribbons

Like headlights in a rearview mirror

Seem like they're everywhere and nowhere

Yeah we'll be everywhere and nowhere