I would've thought by now I'd be overgrown And at the station waiting, I should've known Just how much life was inside of me Cut down a branch of my family tree You find it hard to see that the future's bright 'Cause you just sleep all day and stay up all night Be safe, be brave, be whatever you like Just don't involve me 'Cause I don't wanna do it again I'm getting tired and old I only wanted a friend Someone to do as they're told I started falling apart As I was ready to go Uh! I see a glass half-full and you say you don't I know you say you will, but I know you won't Your teeth dug in and they won't let go You try your best, but it just don't show And when the road is closed and you're walking home Could it be time to call it and just go home? To your fine line of a quiet life Acquired by knowing that I don't wanna do it again I'm getting tired and old I only wanted a friend I'll do whatever I'm told I started falling apart As I was ready to go Uh! When everything beside you Comes crashing down, I'll find you And while I sleep I see you And what it's like to be you Take care and don't be fearful There's no undoing evil It's all a bunch of lies anyway So why bother? Why waste your time?

We could be the talk of the town tonight Carry home your shoes in the morning light Or we could just stay here a while Wrapped up in the quiet life We could sail away to Tobago Fly across the Gulf of Mexico Or we could just stay here a while Wrapped up in the quiet life Now and then I'm loving the world again And I'll be fine living in the quiet life We could get a job on the movie screen Smile on the cover of a magazine Or we could just be man and wife Happy in the quiet life Where the clock don't move so quick Where the water don't make you sick Traffic don't keep you up at night Here in the quiet life Now and then I'm loving the world again And I'll be fine living in the quiet life Living in the quiet life Sleeping by a firelight Maybe I could make you smile In the quiet life We could be the talk of the town tonight

When I saw you I could barely see I could barely see you I could hardly feel Oh, where'd you go? I didn't know you I couldn't hear you when you said my name You're in so much pain Such an ugly stain Can you let us all just know If you want to go? All I feel is your pain You want to be free You want to be free You're playing in memories You're playing in my daydreams I want to be singing Oh, with your spirit It's how we live Hold my hand so still Feel my heart so still Don't want to feel so far apart All these ways I'm praying I want to love the life you give I want to live the love you give So much time I'm wasting now So much shame I'm feeling now Hearing all those fears to come Oh, I hate that sound The ghost machine If I fall on my face Will you flatter me? And when I fall on my face Who will flatter me with praise? A quiet voice You're playing in memories You're playing in my daydreams I want to be singing Oh, with your spirit It's how we live Hold my hand so still Feel my heart so still Don't want to feel so far apart All these ways I'm praying I want to love the life you give I want to live the love you give How, how we lived

Living at home Living under one roof Walls are raging They're all crazy Mind is racing Say you left it far behind And you'll always feel your 17 In a dream Isn't it a sad thing that we all can't win? You got your sad songs or the radio It's for sure that you are all done Just a quiet evening Just a quiet evening When you get home the street is quiet in the morning And the sight of her is all you need to get so down I can't figure how a letter so upset her just climb down the stairs Just disappear I can promise something fleeting Just a quiet evening that will pass And although we ain't got nothing to show By sitting at home It'd mean a lot to me I can promise something fleeting Just a quiet evening that will pass Just a quiet evening Just a quiet evening.

When all the thrills have been forgotten The chill of night can call them home And all the dreams that you left stranded Will slowly start to come along I felt it as she slipped away (slipped away) I didn't have the words to say When I saw the stranger The stranger on a quiet street Stranger on a quiet street You can go straight as an arrow You can go straight as you dare Walkin' the old straight and narrow Don't always get you there The sun was shining when I saw it all (saw it all) She was moving to a different beat When I met a stranger The stranger on a quiet street Stranger on a quiet street It came to me out of the blue (out of the blue) There came the moment that I really knew When I met a stranger The stranger on a quiet street Stranger on a quiet street (stranger on a quiet street) Stranger on a quiet street (stranger on a quiet street, stranger on a quiet street) Stranger on a quiet street, stranger on a quiet street (on a quiet street) Stranger on a quiet street Stranger on a quiet street, stranger on a quiet street (on a quiet street)