Fields are white in snowy spring and I can't
remember the last time I've seen her.
The highway is still cold and wet and I can't
forget the way I had to leave her.
And every passing day, she flickers and she fades.
Is someone to help her when she falls from the heavens?
Chorus:
And I'll love her yet, though she has done me wrong.
And I'll bring her back, though she has been long gone.
And I'll be her
broken hearted savior.
And every heavy night takes out the little life that's left within her.
Every man she gives her love, he takes it, and leaves her with a dinner.
Our love was once a flame, now I'm just a forgotten name,
Am I the only one to blame for having, loving her?
Chorus

Ain't no getting up again, she gonna bring you down.
Love gone up and jump again, turn it all around.
I'm goin' to the liquor store, to get some peace of mind.
Something I ain't done before, I can't seem to find.
Chorus:
Hold me please, Sister Sweetly,
Give to me, a place in paradise.
Hold me please, Sister Sweetly,
And never never leave me.
Sister I am suffering, a single desire.
Hell is the shadow cast from a soul on fire.
Chorus

I closed the door.
She stole the key.
I gave her pearls.
I washed her feet.
I said "My love," she was asleep.
Dreaming of other things.
Chorus:
She's going to turn the light out.
Close your eyes, let it be.
She's going to turn the light out.
Time is out on me.
Carry on, in restless speech.
That we'd belong. We long to be,
Inside someone. Inside of me.
And all my wrong be left at sea.
Chorus

He sits beside her in the evening.
She turns and asks him for a light.
He worked so hard so he'd be something.
Just what it was she never knew.
He lays beside her as she's sleeping.
She asks if everything's alright.
Is there a secret he's been keeping?
She doesn't know anything he says.
He doesn't feel anything she says.
I've been waiting for too long for love like this
To let it slip away.
I've been waiting for your tender kiss.
She says "I just might leave tomorrow."
He says "Tomorrow never comes."
So we'll just learn to love our sorrow.
I'll love you tender as you're sleeping.
I'll love you bitter through the day.

You can turn back the tide of the cold tears from your eyes,
The pangs of wounded pride if you hold me.
Did someone do you wrong yeah,
Good lovin's good as gone.
Maybe you ain't as strong as you wanna be.
Chorus:
It's alright if you don't wanna go home.
It's alright if you don't wanna be alone.
It's alright if you don't wanna go home.
I understand.
Nothin' stays if it's gotta go now.
You can't get water from a stone now.
Sometimes you've got to think about
The things you're gonna love.
You can point the finger at him.
You can say you've suffered for your sins.
Somehow it never was, never was good enough.
Chorus.

Bridge:
When the morning comes and you put yourself together
To face another day.
And when the day is done and you ain't feelin' better
You come walkin' my way.
Now that you're doing alright,
You're pretty much outta sight.
I don't see you knockin' 'round my door anymore.
I'm glad to hear you're doing well,
But I know that time will tell.
Only when you're broken down, is that what friends are for?
It's alright if you just wanna go home.
It's alright if you just wanna be alone.
It's alright if you just wanna go home.
I understand.

This is the midnight radio one
As music in the moonlit starry night
beneath this purple haze our common dark
The heavens obscure, starlight travels into infinity
Yet we only see it when the night is black.
This is the question the brothers and sisters fear;
What is the color of the soul?
Said Buddha, Jesus, Plato, and the poets of Old,
That evening is the color of the soul.
We hide ourselves in artificial light
We think ourselves safe and outta sight.
You have a million dollars still
Enough money to build a city on every hill.
Work hard brother,
Love alone will pay your bill.
Look good sister,
Love alone will pay your bill.
Die rich,
Love alone will pay your bill
And evening is still the color of the soul.

And a soul for every cowboy.
And a star to guide him home.
And an angel to bring him,
A song to sing when he's alone.
For the night is far from over
And the storm is coming on.
And the wind is blowing colder.
And he's very far from home.
When hell falls cold and wet.
His heart soon forgets.
That ever he was loved or wanted to be loved.

New York lady slips underneath the dim trumpet light.
Come from a land she's never known.
She sees in her future castles burning bright,
But she's got no place to go.
And if you should ever speak with her,
Keep your promises to a whisper.
She is listening. She hears everything.
Into the air, and disappears,
Into the evening, forgotten in her lonely soul.
She wonders why everything ain't right
For all the people down here below.
Hey, sister where's your life?
Brother, where's your home?
And if you should ever speak with her,
She is listening. She hears everything.
Into the air, and disappears,
Into the evening, forgotten in her lonely soul.
There's a whisper inside every broken heart.
A frail, frail dream.
Which runs through the traffic and plays a part.
Sweet love through eternity.
And if you should ever speak with her,
Keep your promises to a whisper.
She is listening. She hears everything.
Into the air, and disappears,
Into the evening, forgotten in her lonely soul.

A little light looks through her bedroom window.
She dances and I dream, she's not so far as she seems,
Of brighter meadows, melting sunsets,
Her hair blowing in the breeze.
And she can't see me watching.
And I'm thinking love...
Chorus:
It's bittersweet more sweet than bitter,
Bitter than sweet.
It's a bittersweet surrender
I'm older now. I work inn the city. We live together.
But it's different than my dream.
Morning light fills the room. I rise.
She pretends she's sleeping.
Are we everything we wanted?
And I'm thinking love...
Chorus
I know we don't talk about it.
We don't tell each other
All the little things that we need.
We work our way around each other
As we tremble and we bleed.
Chorus

It seems to me, you and me,
Are chasing something.
What it is does anybody here want to know?
It seems to you, you and me,
Are forgetting something,
When love is so easily forgotten.
And if I pick you up will you drag me down?
If I run to you will you turn around?
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life
Is really just a circle.
It seems to me, you and me
Are being chased by something.
What it is has anybody here apprehended?
It seems to me, you and me
Are terrified of nothing,
When nothing is the reason we are here.
Oh, nothing at all.
And if I cry to you, will you laugh me down?
But I'm asking you to turn around.
Rise and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life
Is really just circle.

Turn around for something better.
Children give up don't you ever.
Remember that the devil's clever.
Brother John, where are you sleeping?
Take the light into your room.
Cast a candle on your doom.
Your master his is coming home soon.
Brother John, how are you sleeping?
May your awakening be near,
Heaven could be any place, Why not here?
Brother John, why are you sleeping?