My song of the end Take him back to Avalon Oh, I haven't been here for a while In blindness and decay The circle's been closed, now I've seen it all Listen crowd I'll tell you everything Though I have to say

Waste my time on you, evil mama Why would you think, that I would ever wanna Oh mama, sneakin' up on me in the black of night Oh mama, turn my back just when you twist the knife Oh mama, I see trouble brewing in your eyes, eyes Oh mama, I won't ever let

So why then, are you crying? Who denied them And no amount of tears Could roll back all the years Bring back all your dreams from yesterday Once your dreams Come knocking at your door It's time to realize

Glory days, glory days Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye Glory days well they'll pass you by Well alright oo yeah Well alright come on now I had a friend was a big baseball player Back in high school He could throw that speed ball by you Make

If you don't come we'll never know You stand off in the back You jump onto the bus And ride around with all of us And light it up 'til we burn it down Crowds that scream at superstars Where bouncers show their battle scars I've been the first to sign on

I don't mind Through the window into my life There's this vine trying to climb There's this wine trying to find It's way from the bottle into my mind There's a black hole pulling me in I slowly bend till I see the back of my own sins I stole my soul from

Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of, Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams. My heroes have always been cowboys. And they still are, it seems. I grew up a-dreamin' of bein' a cowboy, And lovin' the cowboy ways. Pursuin' the life of my

A day in the life of a fool A sad and a long lonely day I walk the avenue and hope I'll run into The welcome sight of you coming my way I stop just across from your door But you're never home any more So back to my room and there in the gloom I cry tears

Find me in the backyard 'Cause you colour me clear Now, what you, what you waitin' for? Yeah, you colour me clear Hold me down In the dark Now, what are you waitin' for? I live the life above I live the life of letting go

Hanging out when it's past time to go Though everyone tried to ignore us We'd scared them all off by the chorus There you stood looking proud What was left of the crowd at our show And I was twenty-two backwoods years old You were singing that night by