Lonely Lullaby

You know, the night has a way of talking to you

Especially when you've been listening

For fourteen years, this goes out to every heart still waiting for an answer

The dust is dancing in the street lamp glow

I watch it settle nice and slow

Another Tuesday fades to black

There ain't no train to bring her back

I pour a drink just to hold a glass

And watch the empty hours pass

The calendar on the peeling wall

Don't mean a single thing at all

Cause 1950 felt the same

As hearing silence call my name

I kept the door unlocked a while

But now I've lost the strength to smile

Singing a lonely lullaby

Underneath the weeping sky

Rocking back and forth in time

Seeking a rhythm, seeking a rhyme

I'm sleeping sound, but I'm wide awake

With a heart that's bent, but it just won't break

My lonely lullaby

I've made a peace with being alone

It's in my marrow, in my bone

I don't cry tears like I used to do

I just hum the blues in a shade of blue

The coffee's cold, the bread is stale

Just a ghost inside a jail

People ask me how you been

I say I'm fine and I hide the sin

The sin of wanting something real

To remember how it feels to feel

I wear my solitude like a suit

Buttoned up tight and stay immune

But deep inside, deep inside

There's a fire that just won't die

No matter how hard I try

Sometimes I see a couple walk

I see them touch, I hear them talk

And something sharp cuts through the haze

Reminds me of my younger days

I turn my head and look away

Cause hope is dangerous, they say

But when the radio plays a song

About a love that's strong and long

I close my eyes and I pretend

That this loneliness will end

That someone's walking up the stair

Just to run fingers through my hair

Singing a lonely lullaby

Underneath the weeping sky

Rocking back and forth in time

Seeking a rhythm, seeking a rhyme

I'm sleeping sound

But I'm wide awake with a heart that's bent

But it just won't break my lonely lullaby

Now I ain't the only one in this town

There's a million windows with the shades pulled down

There's a million souls who are brave and true

Just waiting for I love you

Oh Lord, send a sign to the ones who wait

Before it gets too late

So here's a song for the ones who crave

Who carry love right to the grave

For every man who sleeps alone

Beside a silent telephone

Don't let that candle flicker out

Even when you're full of doubt

Let this melody hold you tight

Through the middle of the coldest night

We're all together in the dark

Trying to catch a flying spark

So close your eyes and drift away

Love might come with the light of day

Sleep now, dream

Sleep now, dream

Sleep now, dream

I'm still waiting

Sleep now, dream

Sleep now, dream

Are you out there

Sleep now, dream

Sleep now, dream

Sleep now, dream

Sleep now, dream

I'm still waiting

I'm still waiting

Are you out there

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Mmm

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