Lyrics
You’re back at the Port Authority bus terminal, 2 AM.
You trace the crack in the tile shaped like your left hand.
It’s October, the air tastes like diesel and wet newspapers.
You told yourself you wouldn’t do this, but there are no other takers.
[Chorus]
And you’re not calling it a ghost.
You’re just calling it the rent.
A debt with no address for where the payment gets sent.
[Verse 2]
There’s the key you copied at the hardware store on Fayette Street.
Still smells of metal dust and the promise of a clean retreat.
Remember you said, “This one fits a door that hasn’t been built yet”?
Just another beautiful sentence you’d eventually forget.
[Chorus]
And you’re not calling it a ghost.
You’re just calling it the rent.
A debt with no address for where the payment gets sent.
[Bridge]
It’s not grief, it’s just bad wiring.
A flicker in the city grid.
You’re not sad, you’re just tired of hiding.
[Chorus]
And you’re not calling it a ghost.
(Countermelody sings: A door without a frame)
You’re just calling it the rent.
(Countermelody sings: A lock that forgot my name)
A debt with no address for where the payment gets sent.
[Outro]
Just the hum from every vending machine.
Just static on the screen.
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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