Loísaida 02

I was there when you pushed Tamiko
Hard against the table
Of polished steel
Where we prepared rich people's meals
What is it the heat of the oven
That made you forget that pic you showed everyone
Of that girl in Ciudad del Carmen
Holding three fat little children

Or is it the 4000 miles
Is another world away
When you got to walk them
And still give the Coyote half your pay
And surely we will be forgiven
For spending our last Benjamin
Working in the belly of the beast
To buy a slice of Heaven

I was there when you got the news
They would not renew your H2B
But in these streets you had become
All you'd ever wanted to be
Your laughter shot across Delancey
You swore you would never leave
And there was always the A train
If you missed the beach at Tel Aviv

Tell me did you change your mind
And buy that ticket home
When you noticed I was always alone
Put in this world to roam
But I know now you live haunted
By what we did to the belly of the beast
Going after all we ever wanted
On these streets of Heaven