All this time away from you
with you would be better
All those days of summer fun
I missed you more than ever
Absence makes the heart grow withered, but fonder still
You know I never will stay silent

It was a big mistake to let me have my way in the first place
it was a big mistake to let me memorize your face

I'm jealous of you, moon
tonight you'll get to see her
alone beneath the stars
and everything I fear
All my strength was tranquilized
and everyday I get weaker
but stronger when I think of how we never sat silent

It was a big mistake to let me have my way in the first place
it was a big mistake to let me memorize your face

I'm staring out into that vaccum again
From the back porch of my mind
The only thing thats alive
I'm all there is

And I start attacking my vodka, stab the ice with my straw
My eyes have turned red as stoplights, you seem ready to walk
You know I'll call you eventually, when I wanna talk
'Til then you're invisible.

'Cause theres a switch that gets hit and it all stops making sense
And in the middle of drinks, maybe the fifth or the sixth
I'm completely alone at a table of friends
I feel nothing for them. I feel nothing, nothing

Well, I need a break from the city again
I think I'll ship myself back west
I got a friend there, she says, "hey, any time."
Unless that offers expired, I have been less than frequent
she's under no obligation to indulge every whim
And I'm so ungrateful, I take, she gives and forgives
And I keep forgetting it

And each morning she wakes with a dream to describe
Something lovely that bloomed in her beautiful mind
I said "I'll trade you one for two nightmares of mine
I have some where I die, I have some where we all die."

I'm thinking of quitting drinking again
I know i said that a couple times
And I'm always changing my mind, well, i guess i am
But theres this burn in my stomach and theres this pain in my side
And when I kneel at the toilet
And the mornings clean light pours in through the window
Sometimes I pray I don't die
I'm a goddamn hypocrite

But the night rolls around and it all starts making sense
There is no right way or wrong way, you just have to live
And so I do what I do and at least I exist
What could mean more than this?
What would mean more?
Mean more?
ohhhh

Bathroom stalls and backseats,
Roadside motels is where they'll meet.
Will they ever learn, ever learn?
Clothes hit the floor before you blink,
Her naked heart begins to sink,
Forget her name with one more drink, yeah.
Will they ever learn, ever learn?
Will they ever learn, ever learn?

He's gone before the morning,
And he's gone before the morning.
You're never gonna see the dawning, yeah,
Of this beautiful day, of this beautiful day.

My baby's eyes, they don't lie.
They got what you've been trying to find,
And we found it on the way, yeah.
So did the thought cross your mind -
That there is something more to life,
Than bed sheets and blankets, full of lies?
Will they ever learn, ever learn?
Will they ever learn, ever learn?

He's gone before the morning,
And he's gone before the morning.
You're never gonna see the dawning, yeah,
Of this beautiful day, of this beautiful day.

He's gone before the morning,
And he's gone before the morning.
You're never gonna see the dawning, yeah,
Of this beautiful day, of this beautiful day.

Five to one, to five to one, to one to five,
The lies, the lust, the trust, the random loveless fucks,
The lust, the lust, the lust, the lust, the lust.
The shorter the skirt, the greater the fame.

He's gone before the morning,
And he's gone before the morning.
You're never gonna see the dawning, yeah,
Of this beautiful day, of this beautiful day.

He's gone before the morning,
And he's gone before the morning.
You're never gonna see the dawning, yeah,
Of this beautiful day, of this beautiful day.
Of this beautiful day, of this beautiful day.