I was up again awake at half past four. My own ghost was lying there. He said you better find a way or change your mind. I'm not going anywhere. So I wrote until the dawn could make him leave.
If you ever leave me, baby,. Leave some morphine at my door. Cause it would take a whole lot of medication. To realize what we used to have,. We don't have it anymore..
I have let you down. With hymns and vows. As I drowned my sins in New York. . I built my house, my home. On stubborn clay. Under the wings of New York.
I still think I'm due. For my dark-haired girl of the Avenues. Do they still think of me. Stranded on their 12th floor balconies. And it's news when these old fears arise.
Hey yiah yiah. Yiah yea yea. Hey yiah. . An old man turned ninety-eight. He won the lottery and died the next day. It's a black fly in your Chardonnay.
There's a blackbird perched outside my window. I hear him calling. I hear him sing. He burns me with his eyes of gold to embers. He sees all my sins. He reads my soul.
Sitting on the brink of an indescribable fall. I could be heading back but there's no room left to crawl. Waiting on the name of the last great American hymn.
Give me a roof to shout your name. Through streets, off building walls. So the world can hear my claim. Give me years of city nights. And we'll walk from bay to sea.
I barely remember the first time I met you. You didn't remember my name. The alcohol might have clouded your vision. To me its been doing the same. But I haven't forgotten the first time I saw you.
Did what I could in Hollywood. But talent only goes so far. Got in my car and got drunk at a bar. At least I know I do that well. . But if I take you home tonight.
lantern. . i cursed the breath of the sea. spelled as poetry. the dreams i could explore. i left them by the door. . i watched the lanterns tilt. through days of darkened guilt.
Thought it'd be. More than a train wreck fantasy. Strung back out of my life that she consumed. I hate this scene. I just stare at walls and TV screens.
love I get so lost, sometimes. days pass and this emptiness fills my heart. when I want to run away. I drive off in my car. but whichever way I go. I come back to the place you are.
I'm gonna wait 'til the midnight hour. That's when my love comes tumbling down. I'm gonna wait 'til the midnight hour. That's when there's no one else around.
You know I have to go soon. But I just want to know you. I just want to hold you in my arms. You got me reaching for the one thing. I'm reaching for the brass ring.
I've done embarrassing things. Like the time I called your telephone. Told you I was with another girl. But really I just slept alone. . You couldn't be more certain.
I'm going crazy. And you mess with my head. Better off losing than better off dead. I can't find a reason. And I don't want to rhyme. This all belongs to me, you say it's not mine.
We can't begin. The hours pass and throw us in the tempest. So I resist. A girl I could love. 'Cause the past keeps creeping up and spilling out. Of control.
Nighttime's coming down and now I'm lying here alone. Staring into the darkness for the things I don't know. I wish that I could understand the things that I can't see.
Some people live for the fortune. Some people live just for the fame. Some people live for the power, yeah. Some people live just to play the game. . Some people think.