Don't Mind Me, I'm Only Dying Slow

Out from my window the people are passin' on by

I hear them complain but I know that they don't even try

And the lights down on Main Street don't shine like they used to

And I'm thinkin' of nothin' but spendin' a lifetime with you

You know that I love you

You know that I wait by your door

You know how I'm feelin'

So I won't have to feel it no more

But nobody could love you like I can

Honey, someday you'll wake up and maybe you'll understand

Well, I got a friend of a friend who drives a nice car

And I got acquaintances down at the neighborhood bar

I got some women stop by my home

But somehow I end up wakin' each mornin' alone

And the train that I ride's got nothin' aside

From the phantom conductor with a dog at his side

And the ghost of a weeping weddingless bride

Who should've been married but never arrived

And I see through the windows like I see through the lies

Like I see through every useless disguise

That everyone wears but everyone swears that they don't

Oh, and don't mind me, baby

I'm only dyin' slow

I'm tryin' so hard just not to think about you

I try not to care about anything that you do

But four in the mornin' and I can't sleep

Well, the pills ain't workin' and I can't get no relief

I feel like a hound dog moanin' along with the rain

Any day now the jukebox could drive me insane

And there's an old man in the corner that nobody knows

He says, "Laugh while you can

'Cause someday you'll be wearin' my clothes"

I guess I can't tell you what you don't already know

I ain't no prophet, my landlord, he told me so

But my mind is a burnin' ring of Saturn flame

I feel things inside that I, I just can't explain

Well, I know that you know how to fake and to take

What you break, what you burn, what you never did learn

And you turn and you say that you made a mistake

As your head starts to spin and your heart starts to ache

But all that you make will be all that you get