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