Emmett Tinley: Music
Amsterdam Weeps
(Emmett Tinley)
Boats are leaving
Boats are coming home
All our lives between
Waves that come and go
I’m losing ground here
Feeling sober
Through the red light
Night is over
All through the morning
While you are sleeping
Amsterdam weeps
All the anger
All the small dreams
Dragged aroung here
On a lonely spree
Greeting strangers
In the old streets
While Amsterdam weeps
Time isn’t waiting
New day is breaking
Amsterdam weeps
Conversations going nowhere
We talk of changes
We never get there
We meet like strangers
And drink to happiness
But Amsterdam weeps
All through the morning
While you are sleeping
Amsterdam weeps
Silently moving
Under the starry light