Thief

When I was young and restless I still had a place to call my own

It grieved me not to leave it for I longed to be alone

Lying in some strange city in a room across from the carnival grounds

I dreamed this world was a Ferris wheel and me going round and round

Out of the bounds of history and its mystery stripped to the bone

I've starved myself of certainty and I have starved myself of dreams

One is home and one is far away and I am somewhere in between

When I hear a love song I wonder if it's true

When I hear a song about the road, I always think of you

When I hear a song that longs for home

I think I know now what it means

For your love I would stay

But one love calls me away

One love calls me away

I am stronger than anybody knows though I know I'm weaker than I feel

I am like a thief who cannot carry what he steals

Caught at last in the alley screaming at the sky

About the hard injustice of this world and he starts to cry

Sensing the approach of the law and their deafness to all appeals

For your love I would stay

But one love calls me away

One love calls me away

I will stand up tall like a cop in the night

I will guard this treasure I have got

As though it were a right

I don't need anybody and I don't need anything

Except you and your love holding me like a string

Back from the edge of the road and I could break it

But I hold on tight

For your love I would stay

But one love calls me away

One love calls me away