Small Talk

Write my name in a line of guests

A hair too drunk to be overdressed

Bite my tongue when they ask how I've been

'Cause I can't talk without cryin' again

I call your phone thinking maybe I'll find

The old machine that you left behind

Life caves in in a silent exchange

But I'm going to try my best to survive in this place

Won't you speak your mind?

There's plenty of time

So tell me 'bout the way that you feel

What you really feel

Won't you clear your head?

I heard what you said

But I don't know what you really mean

What you really mean

Tell me when you feel like we're on the brink

Like something we had went missing

'Cause I can't forget the last time I acted wrong

When you swept it away and carried on

Won't you speak your mind?

There's plenty of time

So tell me 'bout the way that you feel

What you really feel

Won't you clear your head?

I heard what you said

But I don't know what you really mean

What you really mean

Won't you speak your mind?

There's plenty of time

So tell me 'bout the way that you feel

What you really feel

Won't you clear your head?

I heard what you said

But I don't know what you really mean

What you really mean

I pulled the thread

But there's no use

If you just can't get

The honest truth

It spun me around

A carousel

You were moving on

I couldn't tell

I heard the news

It haunts me still

But I ain't seen you

And I doubt I will

Eventually

You just might

Learn how to keep

Your head up high

I jumped the gun

Imagine that

There's more ways than one

To veer off track

But this jealousy's

The bitter kind

It's quick to disease

A troubled mind

Na na na na na na na

Before we parted ways I heard the violins

Alone we danced while the storms rolled in

A little piece of mind for a troubled soul

That ain't prepared for a future unknown

But either way I'm on the line

For a lover's debt

And I don't even recognize the damage done

Yet

When love becomes the problem you just can't quit

It all piles up, sanity loses grip

Visions of the past make their way back 'round

We can't start over before we burn down

And either way you're on the line

Speaking of regret

But you don't even recognize the damage done

Yet

So I'll be waiting on the line

With the hope I'll get

To meet you in another life, with no damage done

Yet

Might take a year to catch my breath

Shake it off, find a new address

Fall back in love with central time

Try to tell this troubled mind

That there's no bitterness at all

It's no one else's fault

I let it slip away

Wildflowers growing high

As the remnants of a life flew by

Like dandelions

Might take a beer to numb the pain

We took a risk, but you passed the blame

I ain't at my best, don't get me wrong

Halfway to noon, and I'm halfway gone

If I've known happiness at all

It didn't last too long

'Cause I drank it all away

A wildflower growing high

As the remnants of a life flew by

Like dandelions

What if this cold life I lead made a fool out of me?

There's no islands in this motel

But I'll tip my glass 'til I'm well beyond fried

No it won't be long 'til I'm going blind

From the damage done tonight

So long farewell

Must be hard to tell

But I was really something

I never went far playing games

Or hiding from the winds of change

So Desire, where you been?

You left my mind in a tailspin

But I suppose it didn't take us long to know

We'd burn too bright together you and I

We were lost at best

Just a phase I guess

But it was really something

Break a fall in stride

And hell you might just find

Your life was really something

Mesmerized

Got twenty years to burn and half a mind

To hit the road

I hope nobody knows

I'm riding high in the saddle

Don't know where, but I'm rolling

Stoned in the moonlight

I'm still yearning to find

A touch of gold

There's nothing in the sky but chemicals

I can't pretend

Luck is blowing in the wind

So I'm back in the saddle

Don't know where, but I'm rolling

Stoned in the moonlight

I'm still yearning to find

I'm riding high in the saddle

Don't know where, but I'm rolling

Alone in the moonlight

I'm still yearning to find

If it was up to me

Eventually

I'd put away the sorrow

Although we burned loose ends

Tried to make amends

Underneath it all, we both know

You were up to no good, and so was I

'Cause we got turned around

I've rehearsed all the words to apologize

But it's been so long

And I'm too stoned to say it out loud

When the magic's gone

Instead of moving on

I hesitate and worry

If you cross my mind

Is it out of line to let you know I'm sorry?

You were up to no good, and so was I

'Cause we got turned around

I've rehearsed all the words to apologize

But it's been so long

And I'm too stoned to say it out loud

Back to the wind, I feel so strong

No reflection in the glass, babe, I'm gone

Tragic, the way I used to dwell

Through it all, I hope you stay well

Maybe there's no edge of the knife

Maybe there's an end to the tears we've cried

People change

It's okay, nothing's wrong

We knew it all along

We knew it all along

Swept in the wind, I'm turning round

Floating through a crowded street upside down

There's hope in the city 'round this time

I can show you what it looks like

Diamonds on the edge of a knife

Diving at the ledge through the waves with my

Fear of change

It's okay, nothing's wrong

We knew it all along

We knew it all along

People change

I'm okay, nothing's wrong

I knew it all along

I knew it all along

I knew it all along

I knew it all along

Many fighters past their prime

Can't let it go

Can't let it die

Tragic figures mesmerize

Lord only knows why

Every morning every night

The devastating weight of life

No stranger to the pain I'll take it off your mind

TV stations, microphones

The feelings you hide to put on a show

Generations watched you rise

Like a deer in the headlights

Every morning every night

The devastating weight of life

No stranger to the pain I'll take it off your mind

Along the way I had my doubts

And I struggled to put you down

I thought all our problems were justified

My best friends told me otherwise

Darling why'd you punish me if you didn't think I deserved it?

You've had your share of sympathy

Baby these tables are turning

Wouldn't you know, I walked it back

When you asked for a second chance

I needed direction

I swallowed my pride

Was too lovestruck to recognize

Darling why'd you punish me if you didn't think I deserved it?

If everything was meant to be

Why are these tables a' turning?