Young men do get older they wrinkle and gray They give out the cold shoulder Then they wither away Buried in their wreckage Like ships wrecked in the sea Caught all up in land mines For what is and cannot be She asked me for a light And I knew right then It was gonna be a hard night
She said "I'd hate to bore you But I'm caught up in a man I set myself before you To tell you who I am My faith is running empty And I'm sick of being burned I taught myself some lessons That I wish I'd never learned" And her eyes were big and bright And I knew right then It was gonna be a hard night
I'm just a man out of his mind The mother ship left me behind And all the while I've been officially withdrawn So I turned on you when I should have Turned you on
I met you in a nightclub You were working at the bar I'm thinking about you right now And I wonder where you are Some times you loved me lightly And some times you loved me strong But you held yourself despite me And you loved me all along So I blamed it on my father And I blamed it on my friends And I blamed my other lovers For the way it always ends But the days of old are over And I lie awake in bed There are things I should have told her There are words I should have said It was there in black and white And I feel it now In the middle of a hard night