I want love, but it's impossible A man like me, so irresponsible A man like me is dead in places Other men feel liberated I can't love, shot full of
game, oh you were always my original sin A dream will fly the moment that you open up your eyes A dream is just a riddle, ghosts from every corner of
believe in miracles anymore And when I think about it I don't believe I ever did for sure All the things I've said in songs All the purple prose you bought from
I?m stoned in the twilight, screamin' on the inside Give me your water, help me survive Gonna miss the sunlight when I lose my eyesight Give me my red
some horn and tusk To build an ivory tower Been to Philadelphia The day it was closed I walked to New Orleans Down a Louisiana road The skeletons they hung From
You can take her Make her change her name You and your old money dance around the flame But you can never, never love her like me You can charm her Calm
We bet on our lives and we bet on the horses In that upstairs apartment on Orlando and fourth And the rent was due and the rent man was knockin' Like
It's a case I guess of paradise lost Ten years back on the hands of the clock In that little house on Mansfield on your old block Sometimes the magic
Oh, I'm a dark diamond I've turned hard and cold Once was a jewel with fire in my soul There's two sides of a mirror One I couldn't break through Stayed
wading out this muddy water Been stranded in the wasteland Rattling chains all around my bed Ghosts can laugh but they're already dead I'm not dying and I'm far from
been there drinking on that front porch Angry kids, mean and dumb Looks like a painting, that blue skyline God hates fags where we come from 'Western
of truth from every bridge we burn A hat full of quarters and a naked song Don't answer the question of where we belong How come birds don't fall from
: Oh, I'm a dark diamond I've turned hard and cold Once was a jewel with fire in my soul There's two sides of a mirror One I couldn't break through Stayed
: We bet on our lives and we bet on the horses In that upstairs apartment On Orlando and 4th And the rent was due and the rent man was knocking Like
some horn and tusk To build an ivory tower Been to Philadelphia The day it was closed I walked to New Orleans Down a Louisiana road The skeletons they hung from
of truth from every bridge we burn A hatful of quarters and a naked song Don't answer the question of where we belong How come birds Don't fall from
there drinking on that front porch Angry kids, mean and dumb Looks like a painting, that blue skyline God hates fags where we come from 'Western skies
out this muddy water Been stranded in the Wasteland Rattling chains all around my bed Ghosts can laugh but they're already dead I'm not dying and I'm far from