Everyone I've ever known has wished me well
Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to
tell
Maybe people only ask you how you're doing
'Cause that's easier than letting on how
little they could care
But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere
Suddenly
all the others are so much easier to bear
Now to see things clear it's hard enough I
know
While you're waiting for reality to show
Without dreaming of the perfect love
And
holding it so far above
That if you stumbled onto someone real, you'd never know
(You'd
never know)
You could be with somebody who is lonely too
(Sometimes it doesn't show)
He
might be trying to get across to you
(Words can be so slow)
When your own emptiness is all
that's getting through
There comes a point when you're not sure why you're still talking
I
passed that point long ago
(Long ago)
Now I'm so tired of all this circling
And all
these glimpses of the end
(You know it's useless to pretend)
That's all the voices
say:
"You'll go right on circling
Until you've found some kind of friend"
I saw you
through the laughter and the noise
You were talking with the soldiers and the boys
While
they scuffled for your weary smiles
I thought of all the empty miles
And the years that I've
spent looking for your eyes
(Looking for your eyes)
And now I'm 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 anyway
Without dressing
them in dreams and laughter
I guess it's just too painful otherwise
