Tender Is The Night (The Long Fidelity)

I knew him as a gentle young man

I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline

We watched him fade before our very eyes

And years before his time

Surrounded himself with shiny things

First night tickets, ermine, pearls upon a string

And disappeared in all the pestilence

that sudden pleasure brings

He never asks after her anymore

He made a point of losing her address

And every trinket that she ever touched

he keeps locked away

And just burns up In the furnace of hIs chest

Well I spoke to a man who says he's done it all

and the only thing that pleases or excites him now

is hurting, hurting then hurting some more

There's someone I want to forget tonight

Don't you want to forget someone too?

I left him, and I can leave you too

Baby let's go out tonight

It will all turn out all rIght I'm sure

Don't want to drink at home again tonight

So let's go out

Let's go out tonight

It's getting dark earlier now

But where you are it's just getting light

Where you are it will just be getting light