[00:24.23]It’s four in the morning, the end of December
[00:30.40]I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
[00:36.49]New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
[00:42.43]There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.
[00:49.16]I hear that you're building
[00:52.75]your little house deep in the desert
[01:01.24]You're living for nothing now
[01:05.76]I hope you’re keeping some kind of record
[01:10.71]Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
[01:20.94]She said that you gave it to her
[01:27.28]That night that you planned to go clear
[01:37.87]Did you ever go clear?
[01:45.17]Ah, the last time we saw you
[01:48.28]you looked so much older
[01:51.28]Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
[01:57.22]You'd been to the station to meet every train
[02:02.93]And you came home without Lili Marlene
[02:10.22]And you treated my woman
[02:14.48]to a flake of your life
[02:21.73]And when she came back
[02:26.42]she was nobody’s wife
[02:31.54]Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
[02:43.04]One more thin gypsy thief
[02:48.37]Well I see Jane's awake --
[02:58.00]She sends her regards.
[03:05.59]And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
[03:12.01]What can I possibly say?
[03:17.77]I guess that I miss you,
[03:20.57]I guess I forgive you
[03:23.83]I'm glad you stood in my way.
[03:30.97]If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
[03:42.71]Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.
[03:52.09]Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
[04:03.36]I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
[04:16.24]And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
[04:26.49]She said that you gave it to her
[04:32.43]That night that you planned to go clear
[04:42.78]               ——Sincerely, L .Cohen