But I looked away And she ran away from me today; She took my hand And tried to make me understand That she would always be there, I'm such a lonely man. It came as no surprise to me That she'd leave me in misery. It seemed like only yesterday She made a

Time passes in the constant state And I wouldn't understand that I would try to play along I took it with me But when things are thrown away like they are daily So if that is how it is I don't wanna be a star But a stone on the shore Long door, frame the

What's my age again, what's my age again? Nobody likes you when you're twenty three My friends say I should act my age And that's about the time she walked away from me I took her out, it was a Friday night I wore cologne to get the feeling right We

To hold you down Mississippi, come back to me Oh, Mississippi January came and took my heart away February felt the same March, my hugs became hold ons April, I huffed like porridge on the boil Morning May, I'm downwind from your shampoo Ichi, ni, san,

I've been doin' me Yeah, I've been doin' me Followin' my dreams If I took the hand that was dealt me then I would be nowhere in life Yeah, I had to think smart Threw away the deck and got my own cards Long before I had the money to afford a car Yeah, I'm

Who stole your heart Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone There are locks on the doors And chains stretched across all the entries to the inside There's a gate and a fence And bars to protect from only God

I made a point to burn all of the photographs She went away and then I took a different path I remember the face But I can't recall the name Now I wonder how whatsername has been Remember, whatever The regrets are useless in my mind She's in my head

In the fall, in the fall, when the tide took them all I gave my life to save her The ocean turned to red Cut down like lambs at slaughter, Good men were left for dead Time rolling along with the waves, A thousand miles away Holding you close in the rain,

And a trip to the moon It was the needle and the spoon Thirty days, lord and thirty nights I'm comin' home on an airplane flight Mama waitin' at the ticket line Tell me son why do you stand there cryin' Took me away, took me away I've been feelin' so

Leave me alone I don't think it's going to happen anymore You took my thoughts from me, now I want nothing more And did you think you could just take it all away I don't think it's happening, this is what I say 'Cause I found it all So I don't think it's