This is my lover's prayer I hope it'll reach out to you, my love This is my lover's prayer And I hope you can understand it, my love My life is such a weary thing But it might be your own presence bringing rain You keep wanting, waiting and wishing When

This is gonna be the best day of my life My li-i-i-i-i-ife Wo-o-o-o-o-oh, wo-o-o-o-o-oh I'm never gonna look back Woah, never gonna give it up I had a dream so big and loud I jumped so high I touched the clouds I stretched my hands out to the sky We

Just a kiss on your lips in the moonlight Just a touch of the fire burning so bright I don't want to push too far Just a shot in the dark that you just might Be the one I've been waiting for my whole life And I don't want to mess this thing up So baby

I wish I could lay down beside you When the day is done And wake up to your face against the morning sun But like everything I've ever known You disappear one day So I spend my whole life hiding my heart away This is how the story went I met someone by

I live my life, in my own way I've made my name, with ladies like you I'm a fine red-blooded love machine Shootin straight and talkin' mean I leave em right on cue Hey, but one thing you must realize Even when you fantasize My love is just a dead-end

See nobody gonna know just what they're missing 'Cause it's my life They can't see the way I see it, through my eyes If there's one thing I've learned, it's that it's up to me Fly away like I'm lucid dreaming If it's my life then nobody gonna tell me how

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea I'm anemic royalty Distill the life that's inside of me I'm on my time with everyone I have very bad posture Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld So I can sigh eternally I'm so tired I can't sleep I'm a liar and a thief

Everything happens to me Black cats creep across my path Until I'm almost mad I must have 'roused the devil's wrath Cause all my luck is bad I make a date for golf and you can bet your life it rains I try to give a party and the guy upstairs complains I

I'm ghetto, excuse me My life is a movie Yeah, I'm ghetto, excuse me Can't make no excuses Excuse me, excuse me Yeah, I came from the mud Came from the bottom Spot 'em, I got 'em I bought a bandana for 600 dollars

And why should I spend time running for my life? And when the skies are open, we'll still be singing this I know they're coming for me, we're not the pitchfork kids Ooh, ooh, it's the loneliest life that we live Ooh, ooh, we're not running with the