It was in your basement apartment   With all of its earth and sea   Making love on the carpet   Under the light of the TV      Outside the sour moon minstrels   Shook their dark tambourines   The morning came in sinister   Well, window light menacing      With clouds up above   Clouds down below   Killing time but it won't stand still   It won't stand still      I told you I'll never make a promise   A promise I can't keep   I thanked you for being honest   I told you don't pull that shit on me      These are the hangover days   Frosted glass, metallic gleam   All these new non-places   They erase your memory      We try so hard   We try so hard   We try so hard to love   We try so hard to love      It was underneath London bridge   I finally realized what you mean   Meanwhile all of fashion's latest   Were nipping at the heels of history      I tried to send you a postcard   But all you could write were apologies   So out the Columbia hotel window   I threw my heart into the streets      With stars up above   And stars down below   Killing time but it won't stand still   It won't stand still      We try so hard   We try so hard   We try so hard to love