Lyrics
A leather brick on the G train platform at the 4am sweep.
Faux-gator, split at the seam, while the whole damn borough's asleep.
Three crisp fifties and a fistful of ones staring up at the peeling paint.
It ain't a prayer, but for a second I thought it felt like a saint.
[Chorus]
It's just gravity's tip jar, a crack in the floor.
For the guys who keep their eyes (in 5/4) on the ground and don't ask for more.
It's just gravity's tip jar, what falls is just found.
[Verse 2]
The plastic window shows a Daniel J. Finnegan, good on him.
Lives on Wyckoff, three stops down, probably works out at a gym.
Probably calls his father 'sir,' and his mother when he's running late.
He's not a person, he's a name on a card, a scratch-off ticket from fate.
[Chorus]
It's just gravity's tip jar, a crack in the floor.
For the guys who keep their eyes (in 5/4) on the ground and don't ask for more.
It's just gravity's tip jar, what falls is just found.
[Bridge]
Smell of the harbor, salt and diesel, that specific Baltimore chill.
"'You find it, you keep it,' old Dockhand Joe said." Goddamn, I hear him still.
[Outro]
New key in my pocket.
Doesn't fit my door.
About Lou Reid
Lou Reid spent eleven years in the Baltimore foster care system before aging out with a bus pass and a handful of guitar chords taught to him by a longshoreman. Now based in New York City, he writes stark, literary rock songs about the city's ghosts and overlooked survivors, filtering the raw spirit of the Velvet Underground through a modern, street-level lens. His third-person narratives are…
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