Everything looks better when you're looking back

23, damn it feels like that

Strange city of blank stares and nomads

Weekend love

Two cities when Sunday comes

You'll take the train and I'll keep your stuff

In a drawer until you come back up

You laugh 'cause you're surprised when I tell you

I'm a little insecure with my feelings

I never had much luck

When I played the tough guy

You say all your goodbyes

And time won't fly

Enterain myself with liquor and lies

And hope that I'll be on your mind

And it's way too cold

In the city in December alone

And I need to know

Am I everything that you're thinking of?

Last night we ran through the lights like running home

Today I'll walk the same city alone

Last night I thought I might never let you go again

Today you're not in New York, so New York's not home

Everything looks better when you're looking back

But I don't want to live like that

I don't want to be sad, so I won't be sad

I look from your left eye to the right

'Cause I'm too close to see them at the same time

You kept all your cards close to your chest

I never really knew how to do that, did I?

I'm in the city

In December alone

And, baby, I don't know

How all this distance somehow made us so close

Last night we danced on the west side in the snow

Today I'll listen to the music alone

Last night I thought I might never let you go again

Today you're not in New York, and I'm on my own

Last night we snuck into the park at 4 AM

Today I'll sit on the benches alone

Last night I thought I might never let you go again

Today you're not in New York, so New York's not home

So many faces

I keep hoping one of them's yours

Of all the places

I don't know why you're not in New York

And I've been chasing you

So long and way too far

But you're not in New York

And it breaks my heart

Last night we watched the sunset over cityscapes

Today I'll watch it come back up alone

Last night I thought I might never let you go again

Today you're not in New York, so New York's not home

Last night I let my heart slip out of my lips

Today you'll tell me you're glad that I did

Last night I thought I might never let you go again

Today you're not in New York, and I can't stand it

Everything used to look better when I looked back

Everything used to look better when I looked back

'Til you came along and stopped me in my tracks

Now I just look at you

I don't look back

Now everything looks like a blur when I look back

Your love, it stops me in my tracks

Now I just look at you

No looking back