Lyrics
Your thumb just traced the skull stamp on my mail-key, Sasha.
It's 2 AM, the radiator's hissing like a cornered cat.
You asked about the locks, got three on this door, 'cause I hafta.
It's just a thing we do around here, simple as that.
[Chorus]
On Essex Street, we don't turn 'round
For the sound of breaking glass.
Some ghosts are just a sound,
You gotta let 'em pass.
[Verse 2]
A longshoreman from Baltimore, he told me that one summer.
His breath smelled like the harbor fog and five-dollar rum.
He said, "Lou, some cracks in the pavement ain't meant to be numbered.
They're just the city showing you the man you have become."
[Chorus]
On Essex Street, we don't turn 'round
For the sound of breaking glass.
Some ghosts are just a sound,
You gotta let 'em pass.
[Bridge]
So if you hear my history shatter on the fire escape below,
Are you gonna run to the window?
Or are you gonna let it go?
[Outro]
I'm giving you the key now, Sasha.
Just don't you dare turn 'round.
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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