Song Of Alice

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:17.80]She was the… [00:19.91]the patron saint of 23rd street [00:28.22]She was around for a lot of that [00:30.09]she … [00:33.34]Wandering around the hotel hallways in the middle of the night [00:38.30]carrying a little yellow cardboard box. [00:46.54]And she inhabited the place like a butterfly [01:00.11]There was this kind of sadness about her and a… [01:04.01]and she did have this light. [01:09.58]And nobody ever knew her real name. [01:26.21]There was times [01:30.14]I’d see her coming down that street [01:33.72]stepping through broken bottles and gum [01:37.49]and carrying her shoes, barefoot. [01:43.08]People said she was crazy but I don’t know. [01:52.42]About six months before the fire there was … [01:56.78]there was a big blackout. [01:59.38]Famous, summer blackout. [02:05.70]She walked around through the halls giving everyone candles. [02:13.32]Scared everybody away in the end. [02:45.15]Then when the fire happened, you know, [02:49.67]everybody assumed it was her. [03:05.20]There had been fires in the halls that year, [03:08.07]little ones. [03:16.64]I dunno if it was fair or not but everybody blamed her for it. [03:44.46]And then one day she… [03:46.31]she just vanished. And later they… [03:52.52]said her name was Alice. [03:55.67]All that time I never knew her name.