There's the neighbor with the doggie 
 why she looks so lost and lonely 
 walking down the Filbert Steps 
 past the fables at Trieste 
 like she's swallowed a sleeping pill 
 on her way down Telegraph Hill 

 There's the woman who wore the smile 
 who had the poise and the graceful style 
 now she seems to walk in circles 
 like a lazy backyard turtle 
 her eyes are sadder than a fawn 
 than an empty coy fish pond 

 When she used to walk in her door 
 he would rise up from the floor 
 and when their eyes met, he always felt 
 he always felt like dancing 
 and he always wanted to bring love 
 and he always filled the room with spirit 

 The miles they traveled were long and many 
 they lived in Paris when she was twenty 
 and then they moved to San Francisco 
 went back and forth to Orange County 
 the miles they traveled were long and far 
 and there in the passenger seat of her car 
 he took his last breathe 
 and she kissed him and she wept and she wept 
 in the driver's seat there in the summer heat 
 he always wanted to go to the ocean 
 and he always kept her in constant motion 
 and he filled her heart with happiness 

 At the end of her hall she still hears his call 
 from her bay window on Broadway 
 some night she thinks she still hears his feet squeak 
 on her apartment floors on Broadway 

 There's the woman with the neighbors 
 who used to kindly stop and greet her 
 until they sensed her emptiness 
 and now they stop her less and less 
 now she walks beside a shadow 
 like she's lead off to the gallows 
 for he's the loveliest thing she's ever known 
 but in time her dampened flame will grow 
 and in time with his passing she'll make peace 
 and in time the ocean she will reach 
 and in time she'll fall into a trance 
 and in her dreams again they will dance 
 and one morning she'll wake with a smile that beams 
 and she'll honor him but learn to love other things 
 and they'll always slow dance in her dreams 
 and they'll always slow dance in her dreams 
 and they'll always slow dance in her dreams 
 and they'll always slow dance in her dreams 
 and they'll always slow dance in her dreams 
 and they'll always slow dance in her dreams
 and they'll always slow dance in her dreams