Wonderful baby livin' on love The sandman says maybe he'll take you above, up where the girls fly on ribbons and bows, where babies float by just counting
You have lived such a gentle life upon this earth that I am stunned by your sight. If I could give but a token of the love you have, then I might
It started out quite simply, as complex things can do; A set of sad transparencies 'til no one could see through, But least of all the one inside, behind
I've got nothing on my mind, nothing to remember Nothing to forget, I've got nothing to regret But I'm all tied up on the inside No one knows quite what
The auctioneer said, I'm not through yet, Here's a horse the likes of which you've never seen, And the straw hats in the sun, with a face beneath each
I was walking by the graveyard, late last Friday night I heard somebody yelling, it sounded like a fight It was just a drunken hobo dancing circles in
And I love you so The people ask me how How I've lived till now I tell them I don't know I guess they understand How lonely life has been
I feel the trembling tingle of a sleepless night Creep through my fingers and the moon is bright Beams of blue come flickering through
Cotton candy, two for a quarter See if the fat man can guess your weight A big stuffed tiger is what I bought her And I'm going home 'cause it's late
Too long ago a broken dreamer shot herself down In broken dreams the years go fast days drag along And she says to herself, 'it doesn't really matter
Amsterdam canals Johnny Cash is never coming back Heard it on the walls, broken hearts will remember Riding into town its a heavy load keeps you right
This much I know, this much I 'll remember You held my hands and taught me how to row And I never got to tell you I love you in my way Had no words you
I'm going back in there, into the dark, going to wind my way through this broken oddysey Where you've been hiding for so long, acting like you're real
She waited like the stillness in the winter, her heart a fragment on a colour wheel Surrounded by the many shaded reasons It's not easy to be real, it
It's clouds and rain again, fog's too thick to land I'm in my head again, forgotten what we had, All the blue is washed out of the sky and hanging heavy
I'm taking down those pictures, throwing out those clothes They're reminding me of stories I can't hear again I'm ending years of making so much pain
Cruel tonight, head down I'm restless in the cold, can't wait to make it home and look away, I don't want to know whose bundled in the snow. How does
He's walking away from all they know as if the rain will make him free She's watching, to see if he'll look back, holds herself inside their sheets Lives