i've always loved these lyrics by joni mitchell

Take off take off
Take off your stay-at-home shoes
Break off shake off
Chase off those stay-at-home blues
Stairway stairway
Down to the crowds in the street

i imagined an outside stairway 

leading from a second floor apartment

in a sad house   to an empty city street

i imagined a rainy night  

a lone streetlight

glistening   black   pavement

nothing original   just thoughts to accompany

the lyrics   romantic   lonely   never meant to shake off the blues

in time i met annie   she lived in just such a place  

we walked up a flight of sodden wooden stairs

to her room   night in the city   while it rained  

when i walked down 

for the last time   it was just as i imagined