The Late Show

Lyrics

Everyone I've ever known has wished me well Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell Maybe people only ask you how you're doing 'Cause that's easier than letting on how little they could care But when you find that you've got a real friend somewhere Suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear Well to see things clear it's hard enough I know When you're waiting for reality to show Without dreaming of the perfect love And holding it so far above That you stumbled onto someone real, you'd never know You'd never know You could be with somebody who is lonely too Sometimes it doesn't show He might be trying to get across to you Words can be so slow When your own emptiness is all that's getting through There comes a point when you're not sure why you're still talking I passed that point long ago Long ago I'm so tired of all this circling And all these glimpses of the end You know it's useless to pretend That's all the voices say: "You'll go right on circling Until you find some kind of friend" Well I saw you through the laughter and the noise You were talking with the soldiers and the boys While they scuffled for your weary smiles I thought of all the empty miles And the years that I've spent looking for your eyes Looking for your eyes Now I'm sitting here wondering what to say That you might recognize Afraid that all these words might scare you away And break through the disguise No one talks about their feelings anyway Without dressing them in dreams and laughter I guess it's just too painful otherwise It's like you're standing in the window Of a house nobody lives in And I'm sitting in a car across the way Let's just say It's an early-model Chevrolet Let's just say It's a warm and windy day You unpack your sorrow The trash man comes tomorrow Leave it at the curb and we'll just roll away