You laugh creating a lightness in my chest Your eyes they penetrate me (Your answer's always maybe) That's when I got up and left Like the angel you are They turn the lights down low In shadows hiding from the world Only coming out when it gets cold The

"I may be circling the drain, but I got a few steps left in me" So when they tell you that you're finished And your chance to dance is done That's the time to stand To strike up the band And tell 'em that you just begun So when life's a real pea-super

You laugh creating a lightness in my chest Your eyes they penetrate me (Your answer's always maybe) And that's when I got up and left Like the angel you are They turn the lights down low In shadows hiding from the world Only coming out when it gets cold