Live like a dream Everybody sing Wild and haunting Broken but free All of a sudden it is midnight And we were running 'til the sunrise

All my friends are heathens, take it slow Wait for them to ask you who you know Please don't make any sudden moves You don't know the half of the abuse But after all I've said, please don't forget Welcome to the room of people Who have rooms of people

These will be the years The lights will all appear But now they're mine The sun hits like a bullet of faith And then suddenly I'm wide awake Fake bliss, our apologies made Was an enemy with no escape My hands were tied

We took a Polaroid You signed your name up on it I put it in my wallet All of a sudden I never was looking, hmm Hoping I'd see your face again Captured the look in your eyes It's only a matter of time Before it starts fading

And then all of a sudden ah it seemed so strange to me Lookin' back all I can say about all the things he did for me Is I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new It always winds up

My story is much to sad to be told But practically everything leaves me totally cold The only exception I know in this case When I'm out in a quiet spree, fighting vainly the old ennui Then I suddenly turn and see Your fabulous face I get no kick from

That's not the way to get over me It don't matter to me It don't matter to me what you say You, you, you know I don't know what you're sayin' All of a sudden you say you don't want me no more All of a sudden you say that I closed the door Girl, your

This isn't everything you are Don't keel over now Don't keel over And in one little moment, it all implodes Breathe deeply in the silence, no sudden moves Just take the hand that's offered, and hold on tight There's joy not far from here, I, I know there

We took a Polaroid You signed your name up on it I put it in my wallet All of a sudden I never was looking, hmm I'll be looking for the rest of my life Hoping I'd see your face again It captured the look in your eyes It's only a matter of time

My destination, my mission, my intuition So close I feel it changing me False affection took the best of me Deep inside, the absent mind Denial and hypocrisy All the same To do this we part our ways Suddenly I know, I have to let it go All that's been