The Man Dressed in Blue

I saw him by the morning glass Where all the hurried faces pass His coat was torn, his eyes were clear Like he had slowly disappeared He held the cold inside his hands Beside the shoes of a better man And no one moved, and no one stared They only stepped around him there Oh, we looked through The man dressed in blue We saw the man But we don' understand He wore the rain like it was skin A paper cup, a quiet grin The city spoke in car alarms He lay there with heavy arms A thousand names went rushing by With coffee breath and lowered eyes He said no word, he made no sound And still he filled the whole way down Oh, we looked through The man dressed in blue We saw the man But we don' understand At night he turned away from light And folded into black and white A shadow where a man had been A human shape we painted thin And I don’t know who lost him first The empty room, the job, the hurt But I know this, and nothing more We made him pavement, dust, and door Oh, we looked through The man dressed in blue We saw the man But we don' understand Oh, we looked through The man dressed in blue We saw the man But we don' understand