If you look out of your window
to see what’s goin’ down
but you find that what you see
just makes you turn around
don’t you bend

There’s a tramp in the alley
who drinks until he’s gone
standing in the shadows
singing out a song
all night long

And if you’ve lost your lover
then there’s not much I can say
to ease the pain you feel
it happens everyday
but don’t you bend

You can rise as far
as you can fall
when you start to wonder
if it’s worth it all
don’t you bend

A second makes the difference in the spinning of the wheel
When you come in close contact with a ton of speeding steel
And just when it looks like it could be your last day
You defy the reaper one more time, get up and walk away
You never know

Don’t be late the game is on make sure that you are in
You’ve got to be the early bird if you want to win
How much you really gain or loose you don’t find ‘til the end
But you try because you don’t know if you’ll be back here again
To see the show

You know the dark side
where it gets hard to keep track
and you go missing for so long
but you always make it back
so tell me how
and I won’t ask again
every traveller needs a friend

Living beyond reach with no lover’s touch
when you’ve lost somebody, feels you don’t have much
wherever I go you know I’ll be thinking of you
you’ll hear me sing through the smoke to you

Did you take the long road out of here
Did you turn around and see us there
Or hear the cries in the night
So many hearts must be right
Hey Dad, don’t leave me here

When you feel no doubt you’ve hit that glide
And your eyes can see it isn’t wide
A perfect target easily
To put that birdie home in three
Hey Dad, don’t leave me here

Maybe I did not treat you like I should
or tell you all the things I could
about the special things you are
now the winter makes me hard

Lately it seems I’m sinking down
I feel the darkness gather ‘round
since you’ve been gone
I stay awake too long

If I could catch the magic tune
I’d play from midnight ‘til noon
from the farm to the town
and watch the crowd gather ‘round,
a song that’s charmed to make them dance
so all who’d hear would have no chance
because the movement in their shoes
would shake the cares they’d like to loose

Searching for the magic tune
with just the light from the moon
places change, scenes dissolve
then it’s time to move, moving on
time to leave and get out of town
see what’s left when night comes ‘round
but when you look you start to learn
there’s no way back there’s no return

A crazy way to try to come
To far back where it all begun
To even think to turn around

At midnight when it all begins
you walk the line you know it’s thin
But to miss the starry night would be a sin

And when at last the night is through
I’m on the road the sky is blue
To pass the time I think of you

Far away from you somewhere
I find myself but I still care
about you

It’s hard to hide it if you’re low
even though it may not show
I’m missing you

I could travel to China
but I know that where I go
I’ll still be missing you

I think of you dearly
I wish that you were
nearer to me now

One more time into the night
alone again, it won’t feel right
without you

Into the market place, where everyone must stray
With the simple tools, that they call their trade
The daily bread, keeps hunger instead delayed

The crowds pour in, when the night has grown
The singer sings, but the song’s unknown
Playing it clear, for those who can hear the tones

But you can laugh though fate, would leave you on your own
When you’d do the same, even if you’d known
The price you pay, to go on your own way home