There's a river in Evening ember glow And you're wishing you could see How far it flows Rolling on to an endless sea You'd be well on your way If you could only set sail. But dreams can drift away And sails can fill with doubt

I'll give it to someone special Last Christmas, I gave you my heart But the very next day you gave it away This year, to save me from tears A face on a lover with a fire in his heart Once bitten and twice shy I keep my distance But you still catch my eye

Stand up beside the fireplace Take that look from off your face Her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger I heard you say Slip inside the eye of your mind Don't you know you might find A better place to play You said that you'd never been But

I'm her getaway driver Her getaway driver So I keep the engine running She'll be my gasoline She treats my heart like a stolen car All the while she had the keys Standing in the line of fire When she's feeling reckless Tangled in her messes

Blow back derelict wind, lay my soul in the foul of the air I dropped my anchor in the dead of night I packed my suitcase and threw it away I fell asleep in the funeral fire I gave my clothes to the police man Shooting venom at the passers-by I'm

It's calling me back to my home HomeIt's what I long for I can't keep away from her touch The Sleeper: Shine- lake of fire Lines take me higher My mind drips desire Confined and overtired Living this charade

I'll do all these things for you Yesterday's gone yeah it went away I've been lost but I'm here today Take what's broken make it new I'll be a fool when the sun's out Burn you a fire when you burn out And give you the future you gave away And give you my

Walk on through Come on take me away Don't push me too far Your only rivers run cold These city lights They shine as silver and gold

What do I say to you? And you were slipping away And if I want you to stay You walk with boundless grace Think old thoughts from yesterday All being lost in the fire You wandered and lost the way Someone's always left behind When the door of life closes

So far away we wait for the day For the light source so wasted and gone We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days Through the fire and flames we carry on On a cold winter of morning In the time before the light In flames of death's eternal