Your lights are burning bright But nobody's home And now there's nobody home Nothing I can do about it Maybe I won't even try Your will is determined to kill any Reason of mine I see you coming With that look in your eye

But I ain't in Checotah anymore I'm in a world so wide It makes me feel small sometimes I miss the big blue skies The Oklahoma kind Where sixty-nine meets forty There's a single-stoplight town And back when I was really young A part of that burned down

Baby, let's not ever get that way And we'll call ourselves the flagship of the fleet There's a few too many years on this hotel She used to be a beauty you can tell The lights down in the lobby they don't shine They just flicker while the elevator winds

Let's go to bed early Turn out the lights It's only eight thirty But that's alright Know you ain't tired Neither am I And stay up all night There's a party going on tonight And we can go if you want to

What is left when the morning comes Is the memory of a future And when my plight is done There is nothing left to hold onto There were friends waiting at my door They are gone now, for the year is new I stuck by my word And when the rains came Made it

I am a human being, capable of doing terrible things. There's lightning striking all over the world. You people are mistaken if you think that I'm awake and celebrating anything that I've become. Hey hey hey hey Hey hey hey

I'm lookin' for 'er Turn on the lights I'm lookin' for 'er too I heard she keep her promises and never turn on you I heard she ain't gone cheat and she gon never make no move I heard she be there anytime you need 'er, she come through Is that her in the

Crosses grow on Anzio Where no soldiers sleep And where hell is six feet deep That death does wait There's no debate So charge and attack Going to hell and back A white light

I see there ain't no ceiling On the way that you got me feeling And every night we're in the moonlight dreaming That we can go all the way This love could reach the sky Bang bang bang See it's a brand new thing So no more thinking When I'm away

Down the Seven Bridges Road. There are stars in the southern sky Southward as you go. There is moonlight and moss in the trees Now I have loved you like a baby Like some lonesome child, And I have loved you in a tame way, And I have loved you wild.