Originally performed by Cop Shoot Cop

what you don't understand

is where everything's needing

when all of the signs you see still point to overload

as you reach out your hand

a shattered vision's receding

like daylights along that lonesome stretch of broken road



because you've been to the past

and it's just a reminder

a recollection of faces that will never come to call

when you've cut through the mask

when you've been through the grinder

sometimes you forget that you had ever been there at all



up here in room 429

the world ain't so unkind

I wanna take you to that empty room tonight



in the shadow of doubt

in the crush of an instant

standing in the rain outside your door, hand on my knife

when you reach a brick wall

there is still a decision

always though if I had to lose I'd surely take you all



up here in room 429

in a world that's so unkind

I wanna take you to that empty room tonight

we'll tell the world outside the door

that we ain't never coming back no more

we're gonna stay in here 'till we turn out the night



the city breathes so softly

everything is sleeping

I am at the window silently watching

I can see you standing

alone against the winter

I can hear you asking, but the streets, they are not giving

don't look to the ocean

restless in its dreaming

don't look to the heavens for they will tell you nothing

if living is for learning

then dying is forgetting

once we have forgotten then we can go on loving



in a lifetime of hope

in a second of kindness

there is never a doubt that we are born and die alone

from within or without

there's no way they can find us

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