Leave a light, a light on In the darkness before the dawn In the swirling of this storm When I'm rolling with the punches and hope is gone Millions of miles from home In the swirling swimming on When I'm rolling with the thunder but bleed from thorns

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself You say I've been spending my money on other women You've been taking money from someone else I called your mama 'bout three or four nights ago Come back home baby, try my love one more time Well your mother

I sent a letter before, I sent a dream to you last night From the end of the world. Oh you,you're so hard to get to, Oh you,you don't want to play, You were no better before, Oh you,you keep me hangin' 'round and 'round And 'round, Oh you,look at the

We were running with the night Playing in the shadows The heart of the city street was beating Light from the neons turned the dark to day We were too hot to think of sleeping We had to get out before the magic got away Just you and I, 'til the morning

If I should die before I wake I'll go into the night whispering your name If lying in your arms is the last thing that I do At least I know that I'll be loved by you In about a hundred years from now When all of my love letters are found And someone

It was not two days. a night and a day I look back at the man I was before A sorry stranger banged up on the shore Your warm arms tore the walls down. The devil with the damned things anyway They were of no use, just a frame From there he would watch,

Let them hail the hollow one Bow before the damned Forge ahead into the night Forget the lessons of the past No remorse for the sinner No repent for the waking dead Hide their faces from the light Let the past live again We will still set in motion

Rising from ruins We're standing as one We're carrying on Out from the nights We're bringing the lights Drawn from years of self denying Lost in chaos before the storm Our strength goes on prepared for mortal battle We can saddle our old scores

A magnet at my very core Pulls me northwards further than before But nights are shorter Lying with the truth laid out like that And your cold star gazing from the flat roof The nerves, the cat He's happier in the grip of a daft half hour Than in his

Forever young, young, and foolish We don't, we don't, we don't, we don't, we don't care We're just actin' stupid We get high 'cause we use it People say we abuse it Bodies on the floor From the night before Teenage raised them, and nothing's wasted