I'm sick of waiting on subway trains to take me back to see you collectively the tokens in my pocket, they could get me there they just don't take me on the trip that you do You're not so far away but still it's breaking down my will and I cannot move on anyone I've lost my esprit de corps but still the story moves on These feet beneath me could walk for miles and when they get to you their souls will be smiling if I should use the last of my breath to come to you before my death, my dear my soul will be smiling You're not so far away but still it's breaking down my will and I've lost my self esteem or was that just a dream I had with your schemes and plans involved I'm calling out to this broken hearted man who has lost his sense of direction no matter what Great Unknown I've traveled I'll find my way back home 'cause to me, your voice is the sweetest perfection You're not so far away but still it's breaking down my will to live... And it's come to my attention there's an imminent correction to be made you don't love me like I thought you did so I'll pray to God in heaven and I'll try to be at my best and soon the angels will lift me up 'cause I'm sick of letting this pretty girl take my heart for a spin just like money luck and fame it seems that love is just a game and it's a game I'll never win

I just want to do my laundry live in a cheap apartment down on the west side roll with the tide change locations every time I start feeling like the neighbors are never gonna change wake back up in that slow mode glad I ain't got to live to half the s%*# that I issue I check my alarm clock, it's 2:33 Got no place to go, just need some movement in me I kind of like the Chinese joint down the way Been livin' here for 5 years and still nobody knows my name and sitting on the roof of my apartment is fine I'll be in business 'till I'm finished with a drinkin' some wine and I'll be jammin' on Freebird, 'til the sun goes down on me I wake up at 3 today, forty-five missed calls they're bound to add up when I don't answer at all I don't know that I'd have much to say, anyway and I can't remember having a job even once but somehow I've been working out the end of the month I'm not sure how I been doing it, but I'm starting to think between the bush that I cut and the whiskey I drink I can count on the rest coming out in the wash and sitting on the roof of a church sometimes reminds me how you left me with a lurch in my mind ...but since then I've bounced back again and I don't need to find meaning, just words I can rhyme to and any place that I can go where I couldn't find you is good enough for me, for the time to be and I will give my number to anyone at all but I will always hang out a prayer that you'll never call can I confess that I just wanna live like this jerry rigging everything life to make just about anything fit, score for the day is what I can get away with Ohhhhh 'til the sun goes down on me

Here we come, out to meet you at the edge of the forest as a child we see you A hesitation, your trembling hand, and though you're scared to come along you find you just can't turn away and run and so we take you in our arms to make you as his son We don't know where the roads of life begin or end or if the signs we see will lead us to the places that we planned maybe somewhere down the road we'll find some of the houses here were built on sand but it doesn't matter for still we gather to follow the command and ask that he lead you by his hand Your mother's mother will make a sign and I will sing this song for you just as if you were mine and we will walk and talk together until we reach the river shore that can make your body shiver from the cold but with a fire that can reach down to your soul Maybe one day they will ask us why we ask so much of one so young and all we'll think to say is “that's the way it always has been done” but there's something deeper 'cause in the eyes of the believer before you were only a creature and now we make you as a son that one day we all may be as one

When I'd known you between 15 and 17 minutes that's when I first learned to finish your sentences or somewhere in that frame and all the rest seemed to come so intuitive it's like I knew you almost better than you did or maybe we're one and the same and I'm not like the lover's you're used to compare to I try to hang loose but I'm not willing to share you you know I'm so afraid to ask is it just me or does this feel too perfect to last Oh, the way I see you is something like magic Oh, but I know it's not an illusion, it's more than a hat trick the way I see you reminds me of the way some souls are meant to meet but not necessarily to make our hearts complete Where did you come from baby, how didn't I see you before? You don't wanna be what the world doesn't wanna see still those are all the things I adore you cry too much, you sleep too little, finding yourself everywhere but in the middle and you're trying to decide if you wanna change for me but your past of disasters makes a hell of a story and nothing you say ever makes much sense it's one thing that makes your defenses so easy to see through making it that much easier to see the real you Oh, the way I see you is just like an angel Oh, but I know I've been living in a vision that can put me in danger 'cause the way I see you reminds me of the way some gifts can be a curse and some things can only make things worse For a moment you think you see my face, and the flickers of who's been there in my place if we're talking 'bout facts I can tell you, girl, it's that ghosts from the past aren't supposed to rule this world my friends say it's because of my youth but I know who you are and I know I see the truth 'cause it's the truth, it seems, that's pushing you away? And you know that silence is never a good sign by it's the one thing you do where I know what's on your mind but before you let the lights fade on the promise you spoke and the plans that we made I wish you could know 'bout how hard I prayed that if you could just see you the way I see you deep down I know you could never be afraid still I know it doesn't work that way, although it isn't right you'll stay in hell, 'cause you're afraid to feel what heaven would be like Oh, the way I see you is the ways you are perfect and it's breaking me down just to see you drown, seeing how lost the words get 'cause now I know that the way I see you is a way you can never be in life and that's why you can never be my wife.

I remember back when I first saw that glow behind your eyes And you took me just the way I was, though I wasn't quite sure why Still it felt like something I just knew was going to work 'cause you know that we both knew just what the other one was worth and the things that hold together didn't break, even when it hurt Now I say that you're my mother, even though I'm not your son and your kids call me like I'm their older brother and the friends that we've become you know for some the sun is coming up, for some it's going down but it's hearts of gold, both young and old that make this town all that it can be and that's why I feel this has been like a family to me When I was homeless, you gave me a room when I hadn't no job, you gave me something to do when I was crumbling to pieces you were the only thing that got me through yeah the one there in my darkest hour most of all was you and we've talked about lovers, we've talked about jobs talked about drinking and talked about God and all the things it means to come and say that I believe You can say it was easy, like nothing at all but the things you gave up for me were anything but small and your sacrifice has made me twice the man I would have been and all the man I ever need to be and that's why I feel this has been like a family to me and the thing I learned is that the best part about love is how you learn to feel the beating of your heart It's a feeling that you only get from giving and though it sometimes looks like things are falling apart at the seems you know it's so easy to see that this place was built on dreams and there's not much that I'll miss about this city when I'm gone but I can guarantee that ya'll will sure be one 'cause won't you look at what we made? It's a fire so warm it's never gonna fade it's gonna set the world on fire and set the captives free and I'll be family to them, just like you were family to me

We both know I couldn't give you forever I promise to not stay a day past December but something about this wrinkle in time that we share will be lost forever if I don't speak I've tested your temper more than a few times to see if you're dangerous as I think you might be and you take it to mean I don't think of your feelings but this from a man who doesn't miss much of anything, I counted the days until you'd be back in the states It's just that I hate things you say that we have in common like the way that we sit, and our relationship drama cause something is saying to say that this humming's a sign you've gotten inside my head maybe I say these things just cause I can to see the tears in your eyes and your trembling hand but equally likely, that somehow despite me I'm not really sure what I feel unless I feel it through you I try to write by the light of a candle I'm usually done when the flame burns away but tonight it is steady and stronger than usual which probably means there is something I need to say you're using your scars as a form of protection you might fool yourself but I don't do deception 'cause every move I make has been calculated and you'd do the same if you'd lived to be hated for something deeper than your skin I wish I could say I could hold myself back and stand behind these words as if they were fact but hard knocks will leave hearts of glass with a crack that leaves me unable to do anything desperate to keep you like I think that I need to so please won't you lay off your looks and your teasing On top of now having your hooks into me and you toy with a force that is stronger than reason when you know you've got no plans to let any of this grow 'cause you were a cut that was aimed at my soft spot, you're all the things that make me weak at the knees and the truth is to say that I'm not in love with you'd be an untruth of the highest degree and you say someone's waiting and he's over the sea I can say it's OK but I can't say it's nothing to me 'cause if I had been smarter I'd let you know sooner I'd try so much harder to be the one to lay me down for you and one day you'll say that your love isn't lovely it isn't true now 'cause your love is above me I won't try to make you regret it how could I when I'm so indebted I just want you to know in the end it was something to me

I can still remember the day I got the postcard from Canaan saying everything that I've been wishing for is waiting and I said “I guess I got a trip to plan” Oh but it's been five years since, I still ain't got plane fare and my friends say it ain't that far, but you know it's a whole lot longer when nobody knows the way Now I ain't too keen on trusting the buses to run on time and the easy street line cuts out before it hits 69th avenue I might catch the southbound out this afternoon and it cannot come too soon Oh if people only brought a song to light the way the pain would be much easier to bear it's just that people don't have ears to hear it's not that they don't care but I know that begging for my fare on planes and trains and taxicabs will never get me there Sometimes just looking out the window make it look so far to me though being a passenger just ain't that hard to be and a stranger said “I used to say the same when she was by my side” You see, I thought we had the same destination in mind and she's planning on staying on 'til the end of the line so I figured I could let my heart be my guide but by the time our story was over and finished I wished that I could teach my intuition how to speak some damn English and maybe let me know what went wrong, or where I lost her along the way 'cause if i'da know that it was my train, babe I woulda run faster if i'da known you wanted more love I woulda asked you why is it even when I'm here you feel alone but I know she can't see past her pile of baggage and I ain't got the heart to chase her after all this jet lag I guess I better take my taxi home Oh if half the plans we had while sitting around in traffic jams were put to work, just think of how the world might be? I can't remember half the things I learned, still somehow I know I've changed ain't that strange, how once you've paid your fare the planes and trains and cabs they somehow get you there? I guess sometimes you got to get your own answers instead of getting where you're going taking all the free transfers 'cause if you're on the public system you'll only get the run around They say that nothing is certain in life and I know it like the back of my hand but I've have my ticket now, if I had a bit in the pan for every accident that worked out better than my plans I'm so glad I didn't wait for the Priceline to be fair 'cause now I know like never before it's gonna take something so much more than planes and trains and taxicabs to get me there