Lyrics

If I could take you anywhere right now
we'd climb the Brooklyn Bridge. I'd show you how to see
the whole wide world inside your camera lens
but you'd waste all your pretty shots on me instead.
We'd throw our voices out to meet the edge even though
competing steamboats have the upper hand
and every time I make a little dent
there's nowhere left for me to go but home again.
You wrote a song that set my blind love free,
took your guitar & moved away from me
and ever since my days are all the same--
tuning in to hear the one you titled my name.

I lay my head down on the radio & let your love sing me to sleep.
This song's the only thing in life right now I'm sure I want to keep.

I've seen the tired sands of Africa. I've been to France.
I've been around the world & back again
but I'm still living in the town we knew.
That means I'm too much of a small-town girl to hold the likes of you.
The New York skyline's got me wondering
if you're okay. I haven't seen you since that autumn day when you
threw up in the cab & kissed my cheek
and I cleaned up & paid the tab & left you in the street.

I go back home to where I know I'm safe & wait for you to come out of this haze
'cause suicide is not the only way to kill yourself these days.

(musical break)

Something happened when the lights when out.
You rose up like a phoenix from my silent mouth
and whispered in my ear until I came around,
packed up my bags with all my rage
and stormed the man who's hogging up the stage.

It's not your fault you get to live like that.
I don't want your life. I want mine back.
Your luck's the only thing in life right now that's keeping me on track.

I lay my head down on the radio & let your love sing me to sleep.
This song's the only thing in life right now I'm sure I want to keep.