Letra de When You're Home

[NINA]
I used to think we lived at the top of the world
When the world was just a subway map
And the one-slash-nine
Climbed a dotted line to my place

[BENNY]
There’s no nine train now

[NINA]
Right
I used to think the Bronx was a place in the sky
When the world was just a subway map
And my thoughts took shape

[NINA/BENNY]
On that fire escape…

[NINA]
Can you remind me of what it was like
At the top of the world?

[BENNY]
Come with me
We begin July
With a stop at my corner fire hydrant

[NINA]
You would open it every summer!

[BENNY]
I would bust it with a wrench
Till my face got drenched
Till I heard the sirens
Then I ran like hell!

[NINA]
You ran like hell!

[BENNY]
Yeah, I ran like hell!

[NINA]
I remember well!

[BENNY]
To your father’s dispatch window
“Hey, let me in, yo!
They’re coming to get me!”

[NINA]
You were always in constant trouble—

[BENNY]
Then your dad would act all snide, but he’d let me hide
You’d be there inside—

[NINA]
Life was easier then

[BENNY]
Nina, everything is easier
When you’re home…

The street’s a little kinder when you’re home
Can’t you see
That the day seems clearer
Now that you are here or
Is it me?
Maybe it’s just me…

We gotta go I wanna show you all I know
The sun is setting and the light is getting low

[NINA]
Are we going to Castle Garden?

[BENNY]
Maybe, maybe not, but way to take a shot, when the day is hot
I got a perfect shady spot
A little ways away that oughta
Cool us down

[NINA]
Cool us down—

[BENNY]
Welcome back to town...

[NINA]
Now, back in high school when it darkened
You’d hang out in Bennett Park and

[BENNY]
Usnavi would bring his radio…

[NINA]
As I walked home from Senior Studies
I’d see you rapping with your buddies

[BENNY]
With the volume high

[NINA]
I walked on by

[BENNY]
You walked on by—