There was a time when love was mine I had a woman I thought wouldn't leave And with that love I traveled above The desires that desired me After a while and thousands of miles That woman I thought wouldn't leave She had enough while I traveled above And she snuck out from under me When I came down I looked around For that woman I thought wouldn't leave But she was long gone, so I grew fond Of any lover that would love me I just couldn't escape from that love I made With that woman I thought wouldn't leave Each traveling heart had bags from the start They just rested their travels with me They know life doesn't stop when you're lost And death comes like a thief when you're lost It's empty men, empty women when you're lost But when you love something it'll carry you home It will carry you home I know there's somebody out there for me She's the woman that won't leave She will love me for the man I am And the man I'm going to be I just can't make the same mistakes With that woman I know won't leave Cause she'll take parts out of her heart And give handfuls of love to me I know life doesn't stop when you're lost And death comes like a thief when you're lost And there's only crumbs of comfort when you're lost But when you love something it'll carry you home It will carry you home There was a time when love was mine I had a woman I thought wouldn't leave

I will sit here waiting until the day grows dark Keep my candles blazing, my doors unlocked And if you keep me waiting, I will not stop because this heart is aching and you're what it wants I said it's fine, maybe I'll see you soon Oh it's fine, I'll be here waiting but You don't have to say you'll come back home Oooo you know where it is when you're gone I don't really mind when you come back home Oooo you know I'll be here when you come You know I'll be here when you come No I don't mind waiting, I know what I want Gotta keep on holding to what I've got And while I am waiting I will not stop because this life is always taking don't you say that it is not I said it's fine, maybe I'll see you soon Oh it's fine, I'll be here waiting but You don't have to say you'll come back home Oooo you know where it is when you're gone I don't really mind when you come back home Oooo you know I'll be here when you come You know I'll be here when you come I said it's fine, maybe I'll see you soon Oh it's fine, I'll be here waiting but You don't have to say you'll come back home Oooo you know where it is when you're gone I don't really mind when you come back home Oooo you know I'll be here when you come You know I'll be here when you come

Where the grass is greener and the streets are meaner Plants don't grow there anyway That seed you were feeding it kept on depleting Because the weeds they grew in the way But you will find plenty men and well employed boys To take you in that new landscape And I know you'll be fooled eating forbidden food Thinking that you made a great escape But you won't be short of beauty, that comes easy As you stand towering over the rest It's a useless tool when you found an excuse To abandon what's true with your nest So go, hide in the big city Where the lust is brand new and the sex it is loose The outcomes can go anyway Fumbling through the phone, fingering for a song That captures the mood of the day With that mystery man and his mystery hands Committing crimes on a stolen body It's nothing to you but women want to come through Because they know I'm a treasure at sea So don't think I'm missing out, thirsty in a drought When you let strangers through your door While you gave up the gold the gold gave up Now it's worth so much more So go, hide in the big city So go, find what you need Hurry hide under covers, hurry hide from the others So that no one can see It's my fault, I know, these sexual woes Your tiny face, smooth skin, and weak knees I keep my words wise, I keep honest eyes When I'm busy trespassing Let the pleasures unwind all through the night A Princesses mouth on a Kings With an experienced hand I take what I can From a girl so tender and sweet When one fire goes another one grows Making the circle complete So go, hide in the big city So go, find what you need You can be fooled but your heart won't be So go, hide in the big city

Broke free from a paradise Had something so long swore it wasn't right Now I'm a bloody mess in this freedom fight Scraped knees and easy eyes Some whiskey for the colder nights Some cold nights due to lovers strikes Try not to notice her beauty's trite She's got no grace between the lines It's something that used to be free but now it has a cost With these eyes all I used to see is where I'd be if I was lost But now I want to be with you I want to be with you Some nights I spent in New York In your dirty sheets, playing hearts Providing comfort and security So it wasn't hard On the other nights when we became strangers Braving freedom's loveless bars We were trying on others while trying not To go back to our start It's something that used to be free but now it has a cost With these eyes all I used to see is where I'd be if I was lost But now I want to be with you I want to be with you We were frightened that our devotion Would find happiness somewhere else But the traveler knows that his home Is where the road leads when thrills where off But it's these unknown pastures and unknown lovers Creating wonder in the wanderer's bones Yeah, we tried, now we see, we don't want what we seek Just the knowledge found in the unknown But now I want to be with you I want to be with you I want to be with you

When you found me I was gone, I left sometime ago. I left my family, my friends, and my baby behind but my vices always showed. In a new hometown they haunt me now the same as before. I thought I'd do something good and new but my past is always at my door. And I swore things would change but I'm down and out again. Life stays hard, and the truth is that I need you to... Reach for me when I fall And pull my back away from the wall A lot may be wrong but it will be alright if you just reach for me when I fall. Money can be a great comfort sometimes but I wouldn't know. I still sing the same songs, no cash for comfort and that's the way it goes. So I stay out on the streets, stay falling in the gutter, but I don't understand. You know, it's hard to get up when I lift my arm and no one grabs my hand. And all my plans have changed, I'm down and out again. Life stays hard, and the truth is that I need you to.... Reach for me when I fall And pull my back away from the wall A lot may be wrong but it will be alright if you just reach for me... Troubles never come alone I'm chain smoking on the phone I've been whispering the sweetest things because I'm missing you And you ask me to come on home but I don't tell you things you shouldn't know I've been flat on my back, down on the tracks, cause I need you to... Reach for me when I fall And pull my back away from the wall A lot may be wrong but it will be alright If you just reach for me Reach for me when I fall And pull my back away from the wall A lot may be wrong but it will be alright If you just reach for me when I fall

You can come to me, I will understand Sometimes the things that shouldn't be are your only plans And if you get scared I will protect you but don't expect an easy life, nobody has ever got that right You can go away from me, I will understand Sometimes the love that you believe is not the love that's in your hands And if you get scared I will protect you but don't expect an easy life, nobody has ever got that right It will be you to fall. It will be you to fall. It will be you to fall, beautiful. And you can give your love to me, I will understand Sometimes the man that I will be is a different man and if you get scared he will protect you but don't expect an easy life, nobody has ever got that right It will be you to fall. It will be you to fall. It will be you to fall, beautiful. You can murder me, I will understand Sometimes the end that's going to be needs a helping had And I won't get scared, don't need protection, never expected an easy life, nobody has ever got that right And it is beautiful. It's beautiful. It is beautiful, beautiful. And it is beautiful. It's beautiful. It is beautiful, beautiful.

The natural queens with their keyboard teeth speak ardent hearted soliloquies seeking salvation true love and recovery Standing on the mood transformation line with the mademoiselles and American pastimes they all ache with the same kind of freedom Forgotten, misled, misused and confused dropped on a dime, stepped on by a few looking at mirrors wishing it was someone they knew Oh, what do they know? Oh, what do they know? Down the block at the vagabond bar the wolf pack closed in on the getaway car that was like cigarettes packed with veterans hearts The Presidents they didn't care the innocent brides showed their rings off they're delirious with the same kind of freedom Forgotten, misled, misused and confused dropped on a dime, stepped on by a few looking at mirrors wishing it was someone they knew Oh, what do they know? Oh, what do they know? Darkness weaved around the scene Ensuing riots and on the balcony Lord Bacon performed Shakespeare to nobody... Then with skinned knees under my jeans I lost my jacket and all my money I didn't really know why I was headed up this street The train conductor knew I was lost he knew somebody changed my sugar to salt he knew I was happy with the same kind of freedom Oh, what does he know? Oh, what does he know?

Once there was a mighty man who spread his love far and wide He had a dislocation from the world and a secret in his crimes His words were strong, his actions brought sweet lovers from where they'd hide He'd tech them all about themselves and then he'd leave their side (singalong and all that) One hundred years roaming the land One thousand lost true loves One million girls now women who experienced his loss Now look back sweet ladies and see how he did help He was the bridge to happiness not happiness itself (singalong and all that, again)

Nightmares hang from the ceiling No shape in the black of the room Except for secrets from the window The infinite gaze of the moon Wide eyed or winking through curtains Watching what you never will Nothing that you see is certain You can't balance on a windowsill Springs against bones where your lying Which lie in the autumn night? Babies whisper through the pillows "No fixing whats broken, no wings for your troubled life" Now move along tomorrow's coming There's a dawn for every day The way is long even when running So don't be afraid to stay Panhandler of dreams in the doorway The snake charmer has nowhere to hide There's a desperation in his smile Peeking through the pieces of light My face is as blank as a dealers No different than a grain of sand Numb to the moods of the ocean Another invisible man Slot machines spinning no winners Veterans twisting their arms Images fall slow and silent Like snow in the winter, like tears of a troubled heart Now move along tomorrow's coming There's a dawn for every day The way is long even when running So don't be afraid to stay She lost her youth to an old man One with no sense of time He carries around a suitcase That has nothing inside Life it gets tired of living But when she smiled it all flew away Until sunsets dimmed before him And he knew he was losing the race Closed eyes weighed down by old lovers Umbilical chord around your neck Holes in the souls of decisions Something in a casket, something you'll never get back Now move along tomorrow's coming There's a dawn for every day The way is long even when running So don't be afraid to stay Don't be afraid to stay Don't be afraid to stay

I am not the man you need I am the ruler of the heart There is no card in the deck for me but the decks always been flawed I will provide the rule of measure for the honorable fools You will close your eyes when pleasured and see the provider of the rule I am not the man you need I am an avalanche in wait When I fall you cannot see if you could you would not be safe I will provide the heart needed to venture up my walls You will climb and be defeated when I send you down to fall I am not the man you need I'll manipulate your love I have no intentions to be I will always sail above I have the wind to my back and a heart like a tomb My sails gain no slack gaining distance from you I am not the man you need but I will show you a great man I will leave you in reverie sentimental with high demands I will provide the need to forget one day you will see that the further we get is where we should be

I tightened my grip, I'm losing my feet I'm starting to slip from reality Lay on the left, desire the right And reach for the day while holding the night The taste on my lips isn't so sweet The experience isn't what it seems Sleep by my side and hear for my heart That's my love applied to removable parts A thousand hungers inside this one man A million lovers will not understand A thousand hungers inside this one man A million lovers will not understand I grant permission, take advantage of me My every omission is your pleasures plea I don't have to stop, you don't have to go I do a job only lucky ones know I exceed all expectations My order is tall, your service is thin Sleep by my heart not just by my side It's immovable parts that my love desires A thousand hungers inside this one man A million lover will not understand A thousand hungers inside this one man A million lovers will not understand A thousand hungers inside this one man A million lovers will not understand A thousand hungers inside this one man A million lovers until one understands

Nicotine tongue tied to my touch I want to taste tomorrow in tonight's rush I want to taste tonight in tomorrow's lunch A pretty girl by my side never taught me much It's trivial times and troublesome tales I may have told but I'll never tell I took the train lines, I traveled the rails Always ended up tracing back my trails These are the days, these are the nights You can't escape so, why would you try? These are the days, these are the nights Undisguised and naked, that happiness is mine Chimney fingered flicking ash in the wind Flames burning out far from feeling anything Because after city fathers found freedom in My freedom and my crucifixion The formula for failure was always at my door With a female, a flask, and a fishing lure Fingernail biting fearing for the floor I want to be lost now as if I wasn't before These are the days, these are the nights You can't escape so, why would you try? These are the days, these are the nights Undisguised and naked, that happiness is mine Reconvene like lovers unlucky in love Like lunar loners liquored up Like an obscene chain linked to the lion's tongue Licking the wounds of the loveless ones It's the leading roll leaving curtains called Lying for laughs in the lending hall Lovely and lost in lessons from God I think I'm learning life but I am not These are the days, these are the nights You can't escape so, why would you try? These are the days, these are the nights Undisguised and naked, that happiness is mine

Opportunity makes the thief when you're struggling down below Can't let the sleeping dogs lie when the cold winds blow I put them past the reapers reach, I run my fingers through their hair All of the girls I meet are the ones that don't care I always let them get closer than they ever should I waste time reciprocating love and being misunderstood I taste them everywhere, I caress every part I teach their bodies how to share what used to have a cost I'm preemptive with my strikes, my fingerprints wipe off Don't confuse my neglection, I meant to miss your heart I meant to miss your heart. I meant to miss your heart. Smooth seas don't make skilled sailors, simple lovers never last I keep a curious distance, I love what you lack I do the things you think I do, I slip through the cracks You gotta forgive me honey, can't have my treasure chest So come inside my bedroom, leave your past out in the hall Kick off your shoes, I know you're nervous, but I don't mind at all You say it's kind of early but it's gonna get late If you're hungry now baby, why should you wait? I'm preemptive with my strikes, my fingerprints wipe off Don't confuse my neglection, I meant to miss your heart I meant to miss your heart. I meant to miss your heart. We all start with bad directions, ask for kisses on our keys Potholes on the road to joy filled with memories and dreams Of all the beauty I've held, there's nothing to hold I had to trade all of my secrets to get back my soul I explored all of the shadows now I talk to God at night A broken heart loves love because each time is the first time Something in her eyes showed me the man that I would be Still gathering no moss, still giving all that's good in me I'm preemptive with my strikes, my fingerprints wiped off Don't confuse my neglection, I meant to miss your heart I meant to miss your heart. I meant to miss your heart. In those days the charm of weakness put its bounty on my head There's a few I should've kept but I let leave instead We would share our vices learning lessons from mistakes When madness was alluring and sin was sweet to taste It was pains into pains, the parasites surviving the host I don't know how alive I seemed but I was living like a ghost I look back now and see nothing, my filthy habits clean Those bad girls became good women, I pray for them before I sleep I was preemptive with my strikes and my fingerprints wiped off But I confused my neglection and now I miss your heart I miss your hearts because I missed your hearts