In Time

The phone rings and I don’t answer

Good news always waits

And I scream into the pillow

But I never shed a tear

So I tear away the blankets

My heart beats bleeding knuckles

In your eyes I feel the magnet

Falling to the floor I melt

I am higher than the mountains

I am lower than the dirt

All alone I sit and wonder if time will take away the hurt

For years I walked in circles

For a time I stayed within

In time I learned my lesson

Everyday my world still spins

I’m the man around the corner

Bottle in a bag

Numbing pain inside me inside

I step up into the sky

There’s no room for the dreamer

The world has shut its eyes

Scratching icy fingers dig deep into my spine

Your train has come and left you and there’s no other on the way

Three days before the end of the month and I got no place to stay

For years I walked in circles

For a time I stayed within

In time I learned my lesson

Everyday my world still spins

Now I’m looking out my new window, cigarette in hand

See the empty faces scattered like the sand

Not ashamed of the way I feel

I know my world is real

But time and time again I run away

Not ashamed of the way I feel

I know my world is real

But time and time again I run away

For years I walked in circles

For a time I stayed within

In time I learned my lesson

Everyday my world still spins