The ashtray was full of orange peels when you woke up the dream wasn't real the sky like a bruise smokin' your last cigarette on the stoop at the end of the night the cold wind blew threw the swings in the park by dinnertime it was already dark the rain had turned to snow everything whiter than a hundred ghosts at the end of the night count the roads and count your friends in case you have to walk home in the end before I change my mind or you drop the line at the end of the night
at the end of the night there are no more stars left in the sky and all the black turns to white
on a dead end street where the train goes past rakin' leaves into piles on the grass no matter how clear things appear we never get closer than our fear at the end of the night like a tree I can't Identify those eyes defined and insecure at the same time where we stood in the road your hair in my coat, your smell in my clothes at the end of the night I fell asleep tryin to stay awake the footprints were lost when the snow turned back to rain but if the birds lead the way home will you still kinow which way to go at the end of the night
at the end of the night there are no more stars left in the sky and all the black turns to white