“It's a really old city, split between the dead and the living So I thought to myself, sitting on a graveyard shelf As the echo of heartbeats, from the ground below my feet Filled a cemetery in the center of Queens I started running the maze of the names and the dates, some older than others The skyscrapers, little tombstone brothers with Manhattan behind her, Three million stunning reminders built a cemetery in the center of Queens You said, remember that life is not meant to be wasted We can always be chasing the sun! So fill up your lungs and just run. We'll always be chasing the sun.”
It may not be New York but this song was running through my head as I walked through Oakland Cemetery. The cemetery, built in 1850, is absolutely gorgeous and feels like a strange blend of the past and present with the downtown skyline in the background.