There's this image of you that I can't shake That day we drove out to the ocean So many things I wanted to say But I knew it was all in vain Life doesn't give you hoops to jump through It gives you tireless roads to cross This sadness came over me So in love, so at a loss I've wanted you So very long I've been feelin' so in-between things Sad and stuck and alone Even when I'm as high as I can get I can't forget I'm on my own Keep thinkin' I can escape it But there are no red shoes to tap Just endless haulin' through a desert And babe, there never was a map I've wanted you So very long Ooh Ooh, ooh All the people I have grown to love That I've had to leave behind Because that was the way the road turned I'm sorry I have let you down You caught me in a moment When I was tryin' to catch the wind Thought there was some kind of magic But there's just well-executed tricks I've wanted you So very long This is what time does to us We try to fight and never win There's no plot to follow here Just repetition of the same old sin But I keep thinkin' that I've found it A way to fill up the empty parts of me If it's all temporary I guess I'll have to wait and see But I've wanted you So very long Ooh Ooh The woman who lives above me I hear her listen to the radio She loves the old time stations They sing, "Lover, don't let me go" And I have been there before In that place of desperate need I'm not ready to go back there To wait for someone else to leave But I've wanted you So very long So now I'm turnin' all my lights down Don't know where you are tonight Can feel so close and then so far away Within the blinkin' of an eye I convince myself I have answers But I always call my bluff All I have is my love to give Someday that might be enough But I've wanted you So very long I've wanted you For so very long Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh