Soda

Soda was just about sixteen
 With earthworm lips and deep pools of green
 Where his eyes should have been
 When he first met Hannah Chang
 Down in her father's fried rice place
 Just 'round the corner where he first saw her face
 Her tiny smile behind the bulletproof glass
 Was framed by a strange sad happiness
 From then on so many nights together
 Down in the park where the tired pigeons gather
 He told her of Puerto Rican sunsets
 While she conjured up Chinese snow
 They call me "Soda" cause when I was a baby
 My mother was so young
 That soda was all she gave me
 It made me sickly so that's why I shake
 Like I'm scared of something
 But Hannah, I ain't
 Chorus:
 Underneath invisible stars
 These dirty streets will forever be ours
 Long after we leave them behind
 To find what others never find
 Ashes to ashes
 Dust to dust
 No one can steal the dream from us
 Underneath invisible stars
 These dirty streets will forever be ours
 The months went by and their young hearts leaped
 Right past the cruelty of the corner creeps
 Straight through the forest of old hate songs
 On their way to their place in the park
 'Till one October Friday night
 When Hannah heard Soda out beneath the street light
 Having words with the corner trash
 Defending the girl that he found
 She wiped her hands
 Pulled her apron string
 Just as the ghetto church bells began to ring
 Just as the cannons of earthly hell
 Awoke the shameless night
 She ran outside in time to cradle his head
 There in her arms his body bled
 Lakes on the pavement
 Rivers in the gutter
 And he sighed as he died
 And he told her he loved her
 Chorus:
 Underneath invisible stars
 These dirty streets will forever be ours
 Long after we leave them behind
 To follow what others never find?
 Ashes to ashes
 Dust to dust
 No one can steal the dream from us
 Underneath invisible stars
 These dirty streets will forever be ours