There's not a lot to say When you're feeling this way And you don't listen anyway You've got your own problems
But listen to me, just this time It's something yours and it's something mine We must be close to the end of the line Let's try and get there together
She said you have to learn she said To find somewhere outside of your head I said that would be fine I said But I'd rather be with you instead
'Cause when you're up they'll love you to death When you're down they'll steal your last breath They say goodbye and you say hello They say how are you but you just don't know
There must be something in between My baby whispered with a scream I swear I'll never ever dream again So back into the stream she slips Our magic still between her lips Her step is sure she never trips again
I don't know why we still pretend Except to make it to the end And you like me must want a friend somewhere
She said that love's a luxury And it was never meant to be A simple thing to share with me at all
She said that anything so bright Could never possibly be right And so encourages the night, to win
I don't know why we still pretend Except to make it to the end And you like me must need a friend somewhere
There goes Johnny he looks like death It's a major achievement just to take a breath He went to paradise he got bored Even fell off his girlfriend
It doesn't pay to think
Well there goes Jenny she's dressed in black Tried to go somewhere had to turn back She broke the contract she broke the rules This time she's really going
It doesn't pay to think
You can reach inside your mind But the only thing you'll find Is that you're dumb deaf and blind just like the rest And the answers that you need Are in a language you can't read And you know you must get free from this curse But it just gets worse and worse and worse
There goes Suzy she looks so cute All dressed up in her birthday suit She saw it coming she watched it go She went out blowing bubbles Bye Suzy
I'm sitting here picking the holes in my sneakers Watching the moves of those midnight creepers There's a smell of a song, rustling through my head Something about being somewhere else instead
And the ghost train comes blowing on in, through this town Picking up the passengers then putting them down And the wind steals a leaf, like the ghost of a thief And the autumnal wind blows around and around
Oh those horses of smoke sneaking in through the trees There's a shaking and a shuddering that goes to my knees And I wonder what's happening, did I miss the joke Another year sleeping I never awoke
There was plenty war and plenty of death Plenty of hunger and wasting of breath And all I did was scratch myself and dream a few dreams And I wrote a few notes on what I think it all means
But reading them all now they don't amount to much There's no meat to eat no flesh to touch A few dreams of you and a few fish to fry I just sat there watching another year go by
Oh those horses of smoke sneaking in through the trees There's a shaking and a shuddering that goes to my knees And I wonder what's happening, did I miss the joke Another year sleeping I never awoke
Radio's playing the blues Somebody's making the news And I'm rolling along In the way that I do saying I don't depend on you.
Hearing the words that you say Watching you walking away Telling myself I'm just feeling blue and I don't depend on you.
Now you're over there All alone in your chair While I'm over here drinking wine And I'm asking the sky Won't you please tell me why That woman could never be mine.
It's getting late by now I've got to keep moving somehow Telling myself I'm just feeling blue and I don't depend on you.
