The Navesink Banks - The Gaslight Anthem

«All hope abandon, ye who enter here»

Said the sign I read that was hanging above her bed

And the siren’s all willing

But a man can’t ignore the signs

You gotta keep a good eye on the winding road ahead

And my first sin was a young American girl

And my first sin was a young American girl

And I spent time 'neath the trestles

With the punks and the dimestore saints

We kept faith and a switchblade tucked beneath my coat

And I ran with dirty angels

Slept out in the rain

We were scared and tired and barely seventeen

And my first sin was the fear that made me old

And my first sin was the fear that made me old

And now I walk down by the shipyards

Near the place where I was born

Saying, «Oh Maria, if you’da known me when»

But she only smiles by the light on the Navesink Banks

Saying, «Listen baby, I know you now»

Then she steps into the river

And I just stand by the moon

Thinking 'bout a ghost I hear at night

And she says, «Your first sin was a lie you told yourself.

«And your first sin was a lie you told yourself.»