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A woman wanders the streets of New York City, takes buses and trains, sits in bars and coffee shops, experiencing the city's diverse neighborhoods, while thinking about her life, her loneliness, unrequited love. She finds moments of communion with various people she meets along the way and with the city itself.
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00:54I turn death towards me
00:56like an enormous sunflower
01:13I was wandering the streets
01:15very downtrodden
01:17looking for hats
01:18these days spilled onto the sidewalk
01:22as it did into my headphones
01:24all that autumn he suicided
01:28the waves of Nico's hoarse pulp voice
01:31as smooth as the dark lake
01:34he choked on
01:36these days she sang
01:38as all thanksgiving
01:40he drowned in the gravy of a despair
01:42no one could begrudge
01:44or temper
01:46as in the song
01:47I went out walking
01:48bye
01:49don't you
01:49I know
01:51you
01:51You
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