Jackson Browne - The Late Show Lyrics
Everyone Ive ever known has wished me wellAnyway thats how it seems, its hard to tellMaybe people only ask you how youre doingcause thats easier than letting on how little they could careBut when you know that youve got a real friend somewhereSuddenly all the others are so much easier to bearNow to see things clear its hard enough I knowWhile youre waiting for reality to showWithout dreaming of the perfect loveAnd holding it so far aboveThat if you stumbled onto someone real, youd never know(youd never know)You could be with somebody who is lonely too(sometimes it doesnt show)He might be trying to get across to you(words can be so slow)When your own emptiness is all thats getting throughThere comes a point when youre not sure why youre still talkingI passed that point long ago(long ago)Now Im so tired of all this circlingAnd all these glimpses of the end(you know its useless to pretend)Thats all the voices say:Youll go right on circlingUntil youve found some kind of friendi saw you through the laughter and the noiseYou were talking with the soldiers and the boysWhile they scuffled for your weary smilesI thought of all the empty milesAnd the years that Ive spent looking for your eyes(looking for your eyes)And now Im sitting here wondering what to say(that you might recognize)Afraid that all these words might scare you away(and break through the disguise)No one ever talks about their feelings anywayWithout dressing them in dreams and laughterI guess its just too painful otherwiseLook--Its like youre standing in the windowOf a house nobody lives inAnd Im sitting in a car across the way(lets just say)Its an early model chevrolet(lets just say)Its a warm and windy dayYou go and pack your sorrowThe trash man comes tomorrowLeave it at the curb and well just roll away
