Candy Apple Grey

I'm curious to know exactly how you are
I keep my distance but that distance is too far
It reassures me just to know that you're okay
But i don't want you to go on needing me this way

And i don't want to know if you are lonely
Don't want to know if you are less than lonely
Don't want to know if you are lonely
Don't want to know, don't want to know

The day you left me, left me feeling oh so bad
Still i'm not sure about all the doubts we had
From the beginning we both knew it wouldn't last
Decisions have been made the die has been cast

The phone is ringing and the clock says four a.m.
If it's your friends, well i don't want to hear from them
Please leave your number and a message at the tone
Or you can just go on and leave me alone

If i could change my mind what changes would it bring
If i could change you, well it wouldn't change a thing
Well now you know and now you shouldn't be afraid
No promise have i made

Tell me a story tell me just another lie
Well i can tell you set your expectations high
Well now i've faced up to you facing me betrayed
No promise have i made

Well there's some green and there's some white and there's some gold
But brighter colors i have left you to behold
It's your good fortune there's a fortune to be paid
No promise have i made

Can't tell you what's coming next
I don't know for sure
It could be good, and it could be bad
I don't know for sure
I guess that i'll continue on from day to day
The only way to answer that
To answer that would be to be that way

I wanted this, and i wanted that
I don't know for sure
And don't ask because i don't know
I don't know for sure
I never get confused 'cause i don't really know
So i'm happy and so what
So what means that i don't know

It's too simple to explain
I don't know for sure
And words are never proper words
I don't know for sure
What is simple, what is hard
Is harder to discern
These feelings that are feeling
Like the feelings that we learn

Twenty years ago, saw a friend was walking by
And i stopped him on the street to ask him
How it went, and all he did was cry
I looked him in the face, but i couldn't see past his eyes
Asked him what the problem was, he says "here is your disguise"

Now he's hardly getting over it
Hardly getting used to getting by

Old may lays down by the railroad tracks
Got no paper in his pocket, got no paper on his back
I asked him what the time was, he says "hit the road now, jack"
Went back to see him next week
He died of a heart attack and died away

Now he's hardly getting over it
Hardly getting used to getting by

Grandma, she got sick, she is going to die
And grandpa had a seizure, moved into a hotel cell and died away
My parents, they just wonder when they both are going to die
And what do i do when they die?

Now i'm hardly getting over it
Hardly getting used to getting by

Time heals, time goes on and time really flies
Time hurts and time can cut you, cut you down to size
There's no need to touch you now, no, i'm doing fine
Life too can cut you and i've cut you out of mine

You're making me...
Sorry, sorry somehow
Sorry, sorry somehow

There's no need to talk to you, well to know what's on your mind
There's no need to see you either, no, i'm just being kind
You want me to beg forgiveness, tender an apology
It's not my fault and you're not getting one from me

Now i guess it's your decision now you decide
Take me to the cleaners baby, take me for a ride
Who ever cares for your affairs will sort it out for you
Send me a subpoena baby tell me what to do

I don't have to think about you, think about the past
Those days stand out in my mind and those days were the last
I know the time is coming and i'm waiting for the day
I'd give you everything in the world just to get it out of the way