Still Holding Out Lyrics

(Asja)One time, Benjamin was carrying a Hebrew textbook.He said his friend Scholem was trying to talk him into moving to Palestine, where he would have a steady job.So with that in...Read Full Lyrics

(Walter)Asja lay down on the bed.We kissed at length.But the thing that excited me most was the touch of her hands.I placed my right palm directly against her left one.And we staye...Read Full Lyrics

(Asja)Benjamin accompanied me to a festival in Capri.I was with Daga on the piazza.Tried to buy almonds, he helped with Italian.Escorting me home, the packages fell from hisHands w...Read Full Lyrics

(Walter)Will I always look at the moon and think of Asja?...Read Full Lyrics

(imagined Asja)(Susan Buck-Morss, in her book The Dialectics of Seeing about Benjamin's Arcades Project, describes Asja's frustration with Walter's nebbishy behavior.She suggests t...Read Full Lyrics

The air fare is prohibitive and I don't speak the language.The culture's not near or dear to me but I wanna go to Sicily.Charlie Luciano took a ride - an ice pick in the throat and...Read Full Lyrics

Sitting at the kitchen table, watching him eat my foodHe is wearing what he calls a "guinea T"Others call it a "wife-beater"But he would never do that.He could take me awayI was ho...Read Full Lyrics

I don't need anythingAnd I don't like anyone who needs anythingI don't need anyoneAnd I don't like anythingWho needs anyone?Who needs anything?I'll always be ambivalent.If you don'...Read Full Lyrics

If the sea was made of milk, and little boats of cinnamon, I would plunge completely to save my darling.In the sea, there is a tower.In the tower, there is a window.In the window, ...Read Full Lyrics

Sleep, sleep my little one, sleep well.Close your lustrous eyes and sleep.When you wake you will study Torah....Read Full Lyrics