I sold my piano

It couldn't come with me

I locked up my bedroom and I walked out into the air

When nothing I needed was left there behind me

I walked out through the shadows of Washington Square

I wandered the highways from Dublin to Berkeley

And I heard the songbirds of Ballyporeen

But I loved like a fountain

And it left me with nothing

Just memories of walking through Washington Square

Now I live in the shadows where light is electric

And time is a number that rests on a wall

And nobody knows me

My friends and my family

Are as far from this city as Washington Square

So cover this warm night in a blanket of starlight

And I’ll follow this freeway out into the air

In case you should wander and wanted to find me

I’m traveling homeward to Washington Square