i would have stayed up with you all night
here i am/ trying to inspire myself to write about you...you, who could be me/ we could be one and the same/ everyone wants out/ so who's special anymore?/ who wants to stay?/ who wants to be special?/ you wanna take a bus, a train, a plane/ you wanna walk, run, hide, be discovered, be remembered/ be anything/ be anyone/ be someone else/ it's not first class/ it's economy class/ you're air cargo/ you wanna be whatever the plaque on the statue of liberty is talking about/ the tired, the cold, the huddled masses/ you want to look forward and not be scared/ look behind you and forget/ look sideways and not give a damn/ you want a place where the sun shines all year round/ where it's cold all year round/ where the girls are pretty/ where the guys are pretty/ you might be pretty/ the plane pulls out, the train pulls out, your feet pull out, you pull out/ out to nowhere/ make it your personal somewhere/ it's somewhere there/ another state, country, territory, continent, world/ then we're worlds apart and worlds don't meet/ they stay apart/ and what's between us is this sick air/ i can touch it, hold it, taste it so how do i know it's real/ all that air/ it just hangs and hangs and hangs/ so you wont come back, you yell and you scream and kick your feet/ you wont show your face around here/ you've packed up/ your rooms are empty/ my rooms are empty/ there is someone new to hate/ there is someone new to love/ somewhere else to be/ anywhere but here/ hold on the line/ stay by the phone/ till the very last moment / when you'll be on your own/ well done you're alive/ well done you're alone/ you've given it all up/ and sold off your home/ well done you're alive/ good luck, you're alone/ you've given it all up/ let me know when you're home/ there is someone new to hate/ someone else to love/ no place for me really/ guess I'm on my own/ come on hold down the line/ we could burn up the phones/ till the eleventh hour/ before you're on your own...