Porchlight Lyrics - Buffalo Tom

Hey when the need becomes too strong or long 

And drawn out for me to take 

Like a cigarette burn to the fleshy turbines of my heart 

That faded afternoon floats breezily into my memory 

Cool shafts of light appear and I'm left here 

Standing naked on my own 

Your voice is small on my voice mail system 

A million miles away 

But if I turned it off 

I would not hear the little things you say 

"The world must chill" 

And like a king I ring up old acquaintances 

It's like the man says "I ain't here on business" 

It's all work anyway 

On any other day 

They say the light has got no equal 

On any other day 

The date's irrelevant but she was drunk 

In the heat of the June night 

The faces in the windows - shouts rang out 

Into dawn's early light 

The flailing arms and scrambling eggs I fled 

On my two shambling legs 

"I gotta go" I said - they both looked dead 

On any other day 

On any other day 

They say the light has got no equal 

On any other day 

On any other day 

On any other day 

They say the light has got no equal 

On any other day 

The fire blazed away 

The kitchen porch was all that remained 

And I'm out here alone - beat up and pissed 

Until this very day 

That old hotel rang back in fuzzy time 

And I was ravaged to the bone 

Your voice got smaller 'til I realized 

It was gone 

On any other day 

They'd say the light has got no equal 

On any other day 

On any other day 

I swear the light has got no equal 

On any other day 

I realize 

I realize 

It was gone 

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