Glare of Glory

Once I lived my life in the glare of glory

Alone on the stage, just a song and a story

I drank the wine-colored starry night

And fell from the sky in the mornin' light

I swallowed my pain with the floodlight dyin'

I stood in the rain, my eyes were cryin'

I was the fool who painted rainbows

I was betrayed by the thorns on the rose

Hey, hey

Take me, take me back

Hey, hey, hey

Take me, take me back

Here we go!

Now I seen the light, love has found me

I opened my heart, I let it surround me

I can't believe I was so blind

I couldn't see, it was there all the time

I'll never regret the hand that was dealt me

I walked the sands hot enough to melt me

If anyone wonders what kept me goin'

They don't know by now, it ain't worth knowin'

It was love

It was beauty

It was passion

It was whiskey

It was grace

There for the askin'

It was words

It was music

It was pain

It was Texas

It was Manhattan

It was Spain

(This is a Carnival, did you know that?)

We don't wan' have no one swing like a pendulum

Walkin' on air, he'll live forever, who cares?

Who really cares?