Passing in front of me, this moment in time,
It’s only a memory, just thoughts left behind,
If somebody told me where I’d be today,
I simply couldn’t imagine things this way

But you were there, long after the fall, the best of you or nothing at all,
Every time I come to call you to me

If only you knew, how quickly time flew,
The maybe you’d see, what you mean to me,
Wasting away, the best of our days, you and me

But you were there, long after the fall, the best of you or nothing at all,
Every time I come to call you to me

But you were there, long after the fall, the best of you or nothing at all,
Every time I come to call you to me

But you were there, long after the fall, the best of you or nothing at all,
Every time I come to call you to me

But you were there, long after the fall, (taking my time thinking it over) the best of you or nothing at all, (from the beginning until the rhythm is over) Every time I come to call you to me

         
Sitting in my filth and wondering how I came to be here
in this unrepentant state from which I cannot be removed….
Unless the hand of God himself does come and make me change my mind,
but, sadly, he’s another good idea that nobody can prove

Still I wait here for this mystery to open up its arms to me
and blind me with its golden light, revealing everything
And so I stare into the sun again to feel the fire inside my skin
and wait beneath the stars with you until the day I hear the angels sing

Trying to talk myself down from this open point of view
because the target on my back is growing larger everyday…
And yet I can’t resist the urge to fight the things that I can’t see,
but even bigger things than me spend almost all their time afraid

Still I wait here for this mystery to open up its arms to me
and blind me with its golden light, revealing everything
And so I stare into the sun again to feel the fire inside my skin
and wait beneath the stars with you until the day I hear the angels sing

I often stare with wonder at the disappearing nature
Of this world that we have made without a trace of guilt or shame,
And still I walk beside myself throughout this heart of glass and steel
without the benefit of irony, and I can’t change my name.
But if you’d only give me just one minute of your life
you’d see that I am made of all the same scars that you always find…
On the underside of everything, but you can’t fly with broken wings,
and even God deserves to have a moment to himself from time to time

I dream away my time as if its mine alone to waste
without a single word of thanks to those who gave this life to me
And when they question my intentions as I look with my own eyes,
I fear they’ll never understand that it was them who made me see

Still I wait here for this mystery to open up its arms to me
and blind me with its golden light, revealing everything
And so I stare into the sun again to feel the fire inside my skin
and wait beneath the stars with you until the day I hear the angels sing

It’s been running through my mind, there’s no turning back this time,
Never enough to satisfy me, but if you think you’ve got it run it by me

This cup is spilling over, it’s falling fast into the sea,
If you think you know it, won’t you take the time to show it, otherwise, please set me free

A complete absence of time, while choosing words that flow and suspending them in rhyme,
Still not enough to satisfy me, but if you think you’ve got it run it by me

This cup is spilling over, loves falling fast into the sea,
If you think you know it, won’t you take the time to show it, otherwise, please set me free

It’s been running through my mind, there’s no turning back this time,
Never enough to satisfy me, but if you think you’ve got it run it by me

This cup is spilling over, loves falling fast into the sea,
If you think you know it, won’t you take the time to show it, otherwise, please set me free

Standing in line to see the world on fire, you’ve got your pockets jingling and your fists full of change,
It don’t make no difference how much of it burns, you just want to look good when the big mamma sings,
And all of those things that you thought that you knew will come running on home when the deal goes down,
And I wonder will it hurt when it dawns on you, in your kingdom of ashes with your paper crown,

You didn’t learn nothin’ from yesterday, and tomorrow might never come, putting lives on the line don’t weigh on your mind when they’re not your own,
but the smoke it will clear and one day will reveal what you’ve done

Smiling and waving as the sun goes down for the very last time, but you seem so confused,
With noone to save you and noone to blame and noone there to play with, to keep you amused,
As one by one, the people file through to give their lives to get in line for the best show in town, You laugh as they fall from the edge of the earth, seems theres’ no price too high and no world that’s too round

You didn’t learn nothin’ from yesterday, and tomorrow might never come, putting lives on the line don’t weigh on your mind when they’re not your own,
but the smoke it will clear and one day will reveal what you’ve done

Standing in line to see the world on fire, you take a long last look at the mess that you’ve made
It don’t make no difference how much of it burns, we’re all going to hell at the end of the day
And all of those people you thought were your friends, they’ve forgotten your name and they can’t be found,
And I wonder will it hurt when it dawns on you in your kingdom of ashes, with your paper crown,

You didn’t learn nothin’ from yesterday, and tomorrow might never come, putting lives on the line don’t weigh on your mind when they’re not your own,
but the smoke it will clear and one day will reveal what you’ve done

Well I wish somebody’d told me how to read between the lines,
Because the lines that I’ve been stuck between are tearing up my mind,
I’ve been rolling down this highway right behind my hopes and dreams,
Always waking up in some new town and wondering what it means,

I’ve got a show tonight in Tucson, and then we’re off to Santa Fe,
And you know I’m gonna’ miss you, as the miles they roll away,
You know I’d take you with me baby, if I only could,
But I promise you, in a month or two, I’ll be coming home for good

Now when I was growing up I always dreamed I‘d come this far,
It’s a long way from the nights we played for free in some back yard,
And I’d like to think that I would do it over if I could,
But if I can’t have you with me then it won’t do any good

I got a show tonight in Tucson, and then we’re off to Santa Fe,
And you know I’m gonna’ miss you, as the miles they roll away
You know I’d take you with me baby, if I only could,
But I promise you, in a month or two, I’ll be coming home for good

All day long I wonder how I’m ever gonna last,
All this time I’ve got to kill has got me living way too fast,
And I don’t know how I came to where I am from where I’ve been,
But I've got no time to find out because we’re rolling out again

Got a show tonight in New York, Then it’s all night to LA,
Gotta’ read between some more lines as I sign my life away,
And you know I’d take you with me baby, if I only could,
But I promise you, in a month or two, I’ll be coming home for good

With these eyes I have seen the rise and fall of many men,
I have felt the fire beneath my feet, and I came right back again

I have walked the world with strangers, I have walked with my own kind,
I have faced a million dangers, in my heart and in my mind,
I have seen the end of many things, I have held the hands of time,
I have given up, and given in, I have left the past behind

Through my days, I have seen the face of evil on this earth,
I have paid the price a thousand times, before I found out what it’s worth,

I have listened to the sages, I have called out to the sky,
I have prayed to god to save me, from the pain I feel inside,
I have lost myself to darkness, I have cheated, and I’ve lied,
I have taken all my chances, and somehow I have survived

Now it seems my time has come at last, I have nothing left but pride,
and where I draw my long last breath, I will let the wind decide

I am nothing more than everything, I am more than just myself,
I have tasted more forbidden things than time could ever tell,
I am lost to all the changes, I have emptied every well,
I have found the end of this long road, I have broken this life’s spell

I’ve been standing here tonight under these colored lights, trying to find a way,
To convey to you the deepest of emotions, through the music that I play,
With a melody so true that it’ll capture you, and carry you away,
And paint for you a picture just as plain and clear as the day,
But words can be deceiving, and seeing is believing so they say,
A song can conjure up your demons, and leave you somewhere dreaming all the way
With a tale of adventure, or a lost love, a newfound paradise,
Or a lost soul in a deep hole that he can’t fix, he just don’t see the light,

I close my eyes, reflect upon the day, whether it’s this one or the next one or the one that always seems to get away
Over and over again, we talk about time, the days of old, the heart, the soul, of right here tonight

All the people that surround us, have found us in their own certain way,
Whether it’s true love at first site, or a feeling they just don’t make words to say
To the lonely ones, the loved ones, and the lost ones who can’t be here today,
To leave so unexpected, full of life, seems an awful price to pay

So I’m in need of some assistance, gotta find a way to go the distance, are we taking the long way home, or the path of least resistance,
Over and over again, we talk about time, the days of old, the heart, the soul, of right here tonight, right here tonight

I’m going to town, I’m throwin’ em’ down, plantin’ em’ six feet in the ground,
I’ve been tested, I confessed it and I might just get arrested for my crime I’m doing time, for laying it on the line, with my heart on my sleeve and a reason to believe,
that this time here with you, it’s been tried and it’s been true,
I hope I’m doing it right, bringing it all into the light, right here tonight,
right here tonight, right here tonight, right here tonight

You come on just like gravity, cause’ I know what you think of me,
I know you think you can hold me down,
But life it turns me upside down, as another page it hits the ground,
And you and time are nowhere to be found

Then I start to think about the reasons, underneath the things we do and say, how we kill ourselves for things we just can’t live without,
Then we live without them anyway.

And all these things I need the most, they leave me feeling like a ghost,
I’ve been haunting my own skin for far too long,
And with anything I used to be, and everything I’ve yet to see,
I can’t help but feel that something has gone wrong

Then I start to think about the reasons, underneath the things we do and say, how we kill ourselves for things we just can’t live without,
Then we live without them anyway

If you could make me understand, just how I fit into this plan,
I could save myself from wasting all my time,
And if every time I needed you, you showed me what I need to do,
I could go on writing my life line by line

Then I start to think about the reasons, underneath the things we do and say, How we kill ourselves for things we just can’t live without,
Then we live without them anyway

Then I start to think about the reasons, underneath the things we do and say, how we kill ourselves for things we just can’t live without,
Then we live without them, then we live without them anyway

Have you got the time, to throw me down a line,
Or are you the kind, to turn away and pass me by,
I need to know, is there another way around,
These ups and downs, Looking ahead, falling behind, falling behind

These clouds roll by, in the twinkling of an eye, by the time the sun goes down it’s on its way back around,
To the place where it begins, right here where this nighttime ends, guess it was meant to be this way, on an ordinary day

When temptation comes across, no matter what the cost,
Sometimes that river bends, so far away and back again,
So hard to see, when you’re no longer running free, right here next to me

These clouds roll by, in the twinkling of an eye, by the time the sun goes down it’s on its way back around,
To the place where it begins, right here where this nighttime ends, guess it was meant to be this way, on an ordinary day

Endless possibility, choices come and quickly pass,
There’s every probability, this one will not be the last

These clouds roll by, in the twinkling of an eye, by the time the sun goes down it’s on its way back around,
To the place where it begins, right here where this nighttime ends, guess it was meant to be this way, on an ordinary day

I don’t want to stay here painting pictures, cover up my eyes,
and I don’t want to see you in the mirror, slowly said goodbye,
but if you ever gave me half the chance, I’d find another way,
to show you that it’s only made of memories, just another game you wouldn’t play

It seems I always find myself in someone else’s moment,
I guess it was meant to be that way
carry me back now to the place where I got caught up,
show me how to hide from yesterday

I don’t want to live my life believing, in things that never last,
for people who have never even seen me, they seem to judge so fast,
and I don’t want to see the world through your eyes, I’ve made my own mistakes,
and even if it’s only a reflection, it’s just another mirror I can’t break

It seems I always find myself in someone else’s moment,
I guess it was meant to be that way
carry me back now to the place where I got caught up,
show me how to hide from yesterday

I don’t want to give you up completely, but I feel like someone else,
and every time I wake up from this dreaming, I lose part of myself,
but I don’t want to wait for you forever, I’ve got myself to blame,
and even if we’re meant to be together, things are never gonna be the same

It seems I always find myself in someone else’s moment,
I guess it was meant to be that way
carry me back now to the place where I got caught up,
show me how to hide from yesterday

I am just a memory, I am not this moment, I am not who I pretend to be,
You are just a memory, you can’t steal this moment, you can’t take this time away from me,
All my life I’ve tried, to find my way to something, something else I’ll never find,
So much left undone, so much left unspoken, so much promise left behind

I speak in riddles trying to understand myself, stuck inside some other life,
I guess tomorrows’ gonna’ be what it will be, to worry is just a waste of time.
We get caught so far behind, running for the finish line

I have been forgotten, I have been replaced, will I ever know just how to feel?
You think you can find me, but you won’t let me breathe, and there is nothing left for you to steal
Days go by, it seems, I’ve had enough of counting, and wondering who I’m gonna be,
All my life I’ve tried, to find something to die for, when I refused to live for anything

I speak in riddles trying to understand myself, stuck inside some other life,
I guess tomorrows’ gonna’ be what it will be, to worry is just a waste of time
We get caught so far behind, running for the finish line

I have been forgotten.
I have been erased.
You think you can find me, but I can’t even remember your face

I speak in riddles trying to understand myself, stuck inside some other life,
I guess tomorrows’ gonna’ be what it will be, to worry is just a waste of time
We get to keep so little time, running for the finish line