It's getting near midnight, and I'm wasting moonlight
I'm burning like fire and ice since you came into view.
Well, don't mind my glances. I'm searching for answers
And rating my chances with a girl like you
And I'm wondering

How can I stand and watch you walk away
Kicking myself to find the words to say

Girl, where have you been
All my life, I've been searching for someone like you.
And girl I can't pretend
All this time, you've been standing right in view.

I want to hold you. I want to touch you.
I want to love you but you leave me senseless.
I'm walking a thin line, and I'm running out of time.
I've gotta set my mind onto breaking through
Your defenses

How can I stand and watch you turn and go
When baby there's just one thing that I need to know.

CHORUS

SOLO

CHORUS

A cold and a lonely street in the late night hours
I hear the echo of my feet bouncing off these concrete towers.
What's a lonely boy to do when the city's sleeping
And he's still hung up on you? And his mind just keeps repeating

I know I can live without you. I'll just have to swallow my pride.
I don't want my arms around you
I didn't love you anyway.
I don't want to hear your voice telling me you'll always be mine.
I don't need your sympathy. I'm gonna be OK
I didn't love you anyway.

When you said that you love me, did you really mean goodbye?
Were you that far above me? Did you have to lie?
When you said that you need me, did you really mean so long?
Were you trying to lead me, were you trying to lead me on?

CHORUS

SOLO

Maybe I should make a call. Get some answers to some questions.
I've read the writing on the wall
And I've already listened to suggestions.
You are the only one. The only one who can let me know
Why it's all been said and done
And why you had to go.

CHORUS

In the afternoon as I step through my doorway
I leave the darkness of my room behind.
And though the haze upon the pavement refuses to stay
It lingers long enough to warp what my eyes find.
Distorted pebbles by the roadside, they're even stranger in their shape
And if I look at things with crossed-eyes
It kind of pulls them back into frame.

I've got to walk away (It's not what you say)
I've got to walk away (It's not what you say)
I've got to walk away (It's not what you say)
I've got to walk away

I watch the colors bleed and force their borders, and crowd the pictures in my frame of mind.
A little insight before I go under.
My conscience passing as I cross the yellow line.

CHORUS

SOLO

Fifty seconds in an open stare, But from a lower point of view.
What did I see while I was there?
The meanings strictly up to you.

CHORUS

SOLO

Losing ground, not keeping up. My breath too short. Too abrupt.
And I'm losing time so I'm keeping low, And closer to the things I know I own.
I've had them all these years, And I've always kept them here
Behind the drapes.
Till you say that they're real. All these things that I can't feel
With love and hate standing toe to heel.

And it hasn't changed in quite a while.
We stumble and fall. Can't you see that somethings wrong.
And we could try to reconsile.
Either way, it's safe to say that it's too far gone.

And if you could, lift me a mile so I could claim my piece of sky.
Then I might see a way to go, but from here I'll never know.
I'll sit and wait
And rely on time of day.
And if I should drift away
Or burn out and fade to grey
Then it's already here. Look before it disappears.
Can't you feel the shifting atmosphere?

CHORUS

Cause it's already here. Look before it disappears.
Blue and green mist elysian fields.

And it hasn't changed in quite awhile

Nine o'clock this morning, awoken by a scream.
Impossible to differenciate between reality and dreams.
It's all been going downhill since 19
With everything that I believe, left hanging on the in-betweens
And even in my anger I still won't let it show
But if you think you'll hang around for long enough
To sooth my soul (soul) (soul)
It's far too strong this time to be alone (lone) (lone)
I can't say when I'll make it through but I'll let you know.

I might have missed a few lines. Dropped the beat a few times
If it comes down, let it come down on me.
When no one knows your name, and you're left screaming in the rain
Let it rain down on me

Bang your head against the wall
Write a note before you leave
If you think you've lost it call on me.
Not a word. Not a sound
Look me up on your way down (down)
I'll be around
I'll be around

I'm realizing things that I just haven't thought of yet
I watch the ashes blooming, falling from the end
of my cigarette (rette) (rette)
I don't understand why that gets me so upset (set) (set)
The holes will burn through anything that my life has left

SOLO

CHORUS

One o'clock this morning, still in no mood to sleep
Selling off my life one piece at a time
They tell me what to keep (keep) (keep)
Would someone watch my back for me
If I retreat (treat) (treat)
I'd love to take back the years that I've just wasted sitting here
And see what I'd be
But I'll be around
I'll be around

Well, I was drunk when I woke up
On the floorboard of my old truck.
I turned the key and I popped the clutch
Shouldn't start. Still does.
I ain't been home all week
My dog needs a bath, cause he kinda reeks.
So's the carpet where he took a leak
Behind my favorite La-z Boy

I ain't got much of what ya call savoir fare
Ain't got no Grey Poupon. No fancy underwear
I can't sing. I can't dance
I walk around with a hole in my pants
Mama says that I'm a magnafluxin' fool

A fresh wrapped pack of backwoods smokes
And a bottle of Jack oughtta raise my hopes.
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo

Today will never be just another day
When I can sit and resign myself to reading hours
And feeling numbers flying past me from the clock.
I watch the whole world crumble through a tv screen
And still don't understand the reasoning.

And tonight if they turn me out
In a couple of days I'll come around
Cause every time I got to high I found my own way down.
And if tomorrow don't turn me on
At least I'll know a place where I belong
And in my lack of faith
I can hardly wait until I'm gone.

I gotta get out of here, I'll go insane
Can't stand up. I keep on tripping
On the time thats dripped like water
Puddled up, upon the floor.
It leaves me dazed. Staring at the ceiling
The cracks on plaster summerize the feeling
That I should soon be leaving.

CHORUS

SOLO

And if tomorrow I'm passed out on the lawn
Eager to believe in something but unaware of differences (turn my face around)
That border between right and wrong.
I watched the whole world crumble through my ceiling
The cracks on plaster summerize the feeling, (turn my face around)
That I should soon be leaving.

CHORUS

SOLO

It's cold here on the outside, from where I stand
You're locked in conversation and can't lend a hand
You speak a foriegn language. I don't understand
But it's too late to admit to anything
I might have done.
I was thinking that you thought that I might be the one
You showed me how wrong I could be just for fun
I guess I misunderstood but

You gave me temporary fortune
It was necessary to hold you
Though it only dragged you down.
You had the questions all within you
So tell me what could I do?
Give me the answer now

Now baby, you've turned your back
So find another fool to compensate for what you lack
Just pull down all the shades. Make your conscience black
You've blinded me

SOLO

Temporary fortune, from what I see
I've never been your savior but I'm not your enemy
Oh my little viper, why'd you poison me?
I guess you knew that you could but,
I never thought that you would and

CHORUS

To me (give me the answer now)
It seems (give me the answer now)
To be (give me the answer now)

Don't look right at them
They'll show themselves in time
The lightning leave a glare that could burn right through
Your twilight eyes.
Don't listen to them
They whisper and they lie
Beneath thier breath's a shadow of what they have in mind
But with no reply

Shake the cobwebs from my thoughts
What say you? Same say I
Continue to bare the threads of all emotions
And inter-twine

Sometimes they come back from shadows on the other side
When the wind blows (when the wind blows)
Carrying the voices of the night
They have no reason. No rhyme
Take me with you this time
Twilight eyes

SOLO

CHORUS

SOLO

I paint what I see (while she)
While she writes herself sane (outside)
Outside the bright circle a stir of echoes ring
(rebound) Rebound and die
Twilight eyes

Please excuse me while I take the time
To clear my mind
I feel the need to decide
If the way I feel is all in vain
Let the sky drop the water, I'll be the fool in the rain
I curse the sunshine. Curse the moon
But no matter what I say, it doesn't change
And I'm still here pacing the room

Trading minutes for memories
And hours for what we had
With isolation as my only friend
And the shadows just haunt me, with whispers of reaching an end
So I can't do anything. Anything
If you're looking back how can you see
The way that I'm breaking down?

But in front of you I can stand and be strong
And tell you that I don't mind sleeping alone
I'm turning the lights out. I'm going to bed
Ooh, I'm not that lonely yet

SOLO

So the streetlight's the final scene
As the curtains and dreams fall, on a silent and empty hall
I pulled the plug on the radio
But I still hear arrangements that we sang just two days ago
I've lost the courage now to sing the tune
The words hit to close to heart. I'm torn apart
I'm breaking down, and where are you?

But in front of you I can stand and be strong
And tell you that I don't mind sleeping alone
Ooh, I'm not that lonely yet
But I'd have to say that I'm close to the edge
I'm turning the lights out. I'm going to bed
Ooh, I'm not that lonely yet

I ain't got much of what ya call savoir fare
Ain't got no Grey Poupon. No fancy underwear
I can't sing. I can't dance
I walk around with a hole in my pants
Momma says that I'm a magnafuxin' fool

Momma says that I'm a magnafuxinatin'
Never been to school, as a rule, lack of educatin'
Pot belly blued, corn fed lay about
A couple other things that I shouln't oughtta say

Bow legged, knuckle headed, foot stompin' swamp hippie
Beer smellin', cow tippin', butt scratchin', finger flippin'
One crude dude, but that's OK
Cause momma always told me that she loves me anyway

Dirt track, night shift, back shavin' hooch cuffer
Dim witted idjit, split toothed knuckle buffer
Big gut, monkey butt, rough neck fool
Then she slapped the dust off me like an ole pack mule

Milkman, flash pan, red headed step child
Kept in the celler till I hit the age of 25
Half alley cat, other part pack rat
Momma's always known where it's all at