Too Far To Care

In the front row at the melt show
I fell in love with you and that was three weeks ago.
We fooled around, you let me have it for free.

Yeah it worked out real nice
I showed you how to and you showed me paradise.
Now you're killing time, and it's killing me.

Is this more than some old summer fling?
And this thing we have, will it mean anything?
When october rolls around will you sober up and let me down?
Will you sober up and let me?

There's a schoolyard out the back door.
I used to love it but i don't believe in school no more.
You don't learn anything, you're just waitin' around.

With your big brains and your know-how,
If there's a reason you'd have figured it out by now.
A little gettin' some's good, while you're waitin' around.

Is this more than some old summer fling?
And this thing we have, will it mean anything?
When october rolls around will you sober up and let me down?
Will you sober up and let me?

Now my bad dream is my best friend,
You were here last night but now you're gone again.
I'm getting tired of you getting tired of me.

Is this more than some old summer fling?
And this thing we have, will it mean anything?
When october rolls around will you sober up and let me down?
Will you sober up and let me down?

Will you sober up and let me?

Eighteen-hundred miles from this old nightclub
A girl is turning 22 today.
How am i supposed to entertain you?
My fingertips are useless when my mind's so far away.

Eighteen-hundred miles from manhattan
The nightclub yawns and opens up it's doors.
Thank god that i don't have to pay the cover,
'cause every night i'm broker than i was the night before

Yeah this old nightclub stole my youth,
This old nightclub stole my true love,
It follows me around from town to town.
I just might get drunk tonight and burn the nightclub down,
I just might get drunk tonight and burn the nightclub down.

Telephones make strangers out of lovers,
Whiskey makes the strangers all look good.
Well my angel of the morning is in mourning.
My life was misspent, don't let me be misunderstood.

And this old nightclub stole my youth,
This old nightclub stole my true love,
It follows me around from town to town.
I just might get drunk tonight and burn the nightclub down,
I just might get drunk tonight and burn the nightclub down.

Well the roadmaps of west texas never gave me good advice.
The trains all roll where the roads don't go, now i lay awake at night,
Just wondering where the rest is so i hit that iron gate,
And i yelled good-bye to that wife of mine, i may be running late.

I'm a-rolling on, i'm a-rolling on,
Rolling out past el paso texas, where i might have had a home.
I made my bed, so here i lie.
I'm rolling west texas teardrops in my eye.

Though i felt a lonesome feeling in dulce new mexico,
I was happier than i'd ever been in my el paso home.
But i thought about the woman whom i left to roam the land,
And i cried so much it dug a rut they call the rio grande.

I'm a-rolling on, i'm a-rolling on,
Rolling out past el paso texas, where i might have had a home.
I made my bed, so here i lie.
I'm rolling west texas teardrops in my eye.

And my destination is written upon my feet,
And the stars above are about the only company i keep.
I raise my pass and take my seat.
I'm rolling fast with a teardrop on my cheek.

So i guess there'll be no family, so i guess there'll be no wife.
Gonna roll away on an old steel dray, it's gonna be my life.
And the roadmaps i been reading, i never came to figure out.
All i know is i'd explode by any other route.

I'm a-rolling on, i'm a-rolling on,
Rolling out past el paso texas, where i might have had a home.
I made my bed, so here i lie.
I'm rolling west texas teardrops in my eye.

Just like california was not even there
Since it's gone i'm so withdrawn
I ain't got no one nowhere

Right beside the ocean my darlin' clementine
Well the water got high and she never got dry and
She was a water sign

Chorus:
Time is on my bad side
Halfway there just wouldn't be fair
So i'm goin' all the way tonight
Halfway there just wouldn't be fair
So i'm goin' all the way tonight

Just like california to make a fool of me
Steal the sideshow, burn the disco
Slide into the sea

I'm a thinking person, and i think that it's wrong
To keep on saying true love's waiting
When true love is long gone

(repeat chorus)

Big brown eyes, and a gust of wind,
And the cherry burns the corner of the page that says "the end
Is coming soon," but not soon enough.
Restring all your guitars. pack up all your stuff.

'cause if robert's dad is right,
We might not make it through the night,
And i'd hate to go alone.
Please pick up the phone.

Well a box of red, and a pill or three,
And i'm calling time and temperature just for some company.
I wish you were here. i wish i was too.
I'll drink myself to sleeplessness, i always do.

You don't want me anymore,
Since fame and fortune broke down our door.
You don't give me no respect.
What did i expect?

If that phone don't ring one more time,
I'm gonna lose what's left of my mind.
You made a big impression for a girl of your size,
Now i can't get by without you and your big brown eyes.

Her hands are cold, her breath is warm,
She's a port in a storm.
I'm worried now, but it won't be long.
It takes a worried man, you know, to sing a worried song.

I've got issues, yeah.
Like i miss you, yeah.
And i wish i weren't so thick.
I'm making myself sick.

If that phone don't ring one more time,
I'm gonna lose what's left of my mind.
You made a big impression for a girl of your size,
Now i can't get by without you and your big brown eyes.

I got a four leaf clover.
It ain't done one single lick of good.
I'm still a drunk and i'm still a loser.
I'm living in a lousy neighborhood.

I got a real live horseshoe,
And i hung it upside-down above my door.
But it don't do nothing to impress you,
So i don't know what the hell it's for.

Why don't you come over? i'll show you my four leaf clover.
Who'm i trying to kid? i'm not the kind of guy you'd go
For.
I got a four leaf clover, but i ain't got no hope of
Getting you.

I got a lucky silver dollar.
My granddad gave it to me now he's dead.
At times like this i wish that i cound join him,
It might just stop this pounding in my head.

Why don't you come over? i'll show you my four leaf clover.
Who'm i trying to kid? i'm not the kind of guy you'd go
For.
I got a four leaf clover, but i ain't got no hope of
Getting you.
I ain't got no hope of getting you.