Chicago is where the woman downstairs
starved herself to death last summer
her boyfriend Ted ate hot dogs and wept
with the gray rats out on the fire escape

in a thrift store chair I drank cases of beer
and dreame
Love Me Forever lyrics

Love me forever, or not at all,
End of our tether, backs to the wall,
Give me your hand, don't you ever ask why,d of laying down on the el tracks
the trains roared by under smoke-gray skies
Lake Michigan rose and fell like a bird

and when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue
the corner bars were full by noon
and the old stewbums sliding down their stools
a
Cruel To Be Kind lyrics

Babe I'm sorry but I just can't stand the pain 
If you're leaving baby, 
Let me say one last thing 
You tell m
te boiled eggs and fed beer to the dogs

the woman downstairs lost all her hair
and wore a beret in the laundryroom
I borrowed her soap and bought her a Coke
but she left it on a dryer

she died in June weighing 82
her boyfriend went back to New 
A Murder Of Memories lyrics

(Spoken)
That's him in the corner of social oblivion
Encompassed by the sweet sense of free
York
the cops wandered through her dusty rooms
one of them stole her TV

and when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue
the corner bars were full by noon
and the old stewbums sliding down their stools
ate boiled eggs and fed beer to the dogs