“My City’s Gone” is the indication that his hope for the relationship is broken. His partner declined his love that was so crazily given in “May I Have This Dance”, and he feels as if he structure (his partner, an allusion to his own city) is gone.

He also describes the changing landscape of the literal place he’s living in, and how it may have been his home “from twenty-three to thirty-four” but it seems strange and alien to him now.