These plants will soon fill her room
overtake this darkness with oxygen
as rain ticks time on the window
as midnight crawls in

Five years gone by
with her time she's built this life
well, time and fate brought me to the one I love
won't you tell me
what's in store now, fate?

Who knows the answers to my questions?
It's heaven's charts to be read
it's fate, but can fate be read?
or, I'll tell you what,
I'm begging you to tell me just what to do with this??

With the dust and the scraps she could find
she made her life her shrine
a palace in Brooklyn,
a room with a view
while i've spent my time wondering
wondering about me and you

(chorus)

Here's home to a modern goddess
my friend Athena of New York City
how can i be sad around her
the fortresses of Lysistrata are failing me
I'm gonna wipe the sweat from my brow
gonna toughen up somehow
but I'm so far away from my strength
so far away, darling

(chorus)

I'm in the home of a modern goddess
it's painted lavender and blue
staring at the cracks on her ceiling
where will i go on my own, without you??