Sunny days and sweet romances, Childhood dreams, forgotten chances pass you by. Time has gone, and far behind you Music plays and lights that blind you fade and die. So don't wish your life away for things you've never seen, Don't give a second thought to things that might have been. Feel as if it's now or never, We can make it last for ever, Don't ask why. Closer to you, don't ever find my way, Closer to you, make it easy, make me stay. Closer to you, yeah I will turn that night into day Closer to you, I will live my life Closer to you. In the evening, dancing shadows Gather, caring, where the wind blows, fancy free. In our world of empty spaces Strangers in familiar places, you and me. So don't wish your life away for things you've never seen, Don't give a second thought to things that might have been. There's no need to wonder whether Happiness we'll share together Can't it be Closer to you, I don't ever find my way, Closer to you, make it easy, make me stay. Closer to you, yeah I will turn that night into day Closer to you, I will live my life Closer to you. So don't wish your life away for things you've never seen, Don't give a second thought to things that might have been. There's no need to wonder whether Happiness we'll share together Can't it be Closer to you, I don't ever find my way, Closer to you, make it easy, make me stay. Closer to you, yeah I will turn that night into day Closer to you, I will live my life Closer to you.

How soft a whisper can get When you're walking through a crowded space I hear every word being said And I remember that everyday I get a little bit closer to you How long an hour can take When you're staring into open space When I feel I'm slipping further away I remember that everyday I get a little bit closer to you These are the days That I won't get back I won't hear you cry Or hear you laugh And when it's quiet And I don't hear a thing I can always hear you breathe You know there's nowhere else I've wanted to be Than be there when you needed me I'm sorry too But don't give up on me And just remember that when you were asleep I got a little bit closer to you

All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you I had no choices When I fell in love with you Thank god you fell for my love too I'm disappointed By everything that I do I'm sick of everyone but you Stretched out on an empty bed I cry, I try, I die Touch is frozen in my chest You know I'm petrified All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you Closer, closer, get closer to you All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you Delicate flower Dancing underneath the moon I'm wilting, dying as you bloom My disposition Makes a hostage out of you Won't you just stay in my cocoon Touch is frozen in my chest You know I'm petrified All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer too you All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer too you Closer, closer, get closer to you All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer too you I'm over here Watching with fear And I, I will try to keep you near Tell me you care Don't leave me here All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you Closer, closer, these threads I will lose All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you Closer, closer, get closer to you All I wanna do, All I wanna do Is get a little closer to you

Oh my God, I pray What has the world become? All this constant change What is going on? N' even though it's difficult We'll dance in the unknown Yeah, we got so far to go together As we're trying We're trying We're trying to piece it all Rewrite this story With love and glory For crying out loud Wanna hold you right now, I would die to But I'm not worried No need to hurry Cos with all of these miles I never felt closer I never felt closer to you Looking for a sign To help us through the night Imagining your heart Painted in the sky No use crying, crying over what we can't control Rewrite this story With love and glory For crying out loud Wanna hold you right now, I would die to But I'm not worried No need to hurry Cos with all of these miles I never felt closer I never felt closer to you Closer Clo-o-o-o-o-ser Closer Clo-o-o-o-o-ser Oh oh oh No use crying, crying over what we can't control Rewrite this story With love and glory For crying out loud Wanna hold you right now I would die to-o But I'm not worried No need to hurry Cos with all of these miles I never felt closer I never felt closer to you Closer to you Closer to you (No use crying) No use No use Closer Clo-o-o-o-o-ser Closer Clo-o-o-o-o-ser I can't live without you Closer Clo-o-o-o-o-ser Closer Clo-o-o-o-o-ser I can't live without you

Mom, would you give me a ring? One for the ride and one for the magazines? "She's only twenty-two" A flash to the upbringing of the child, the canine What will become mine Once I decide to leave? Seek to take and give it all away Once you know, it's only a maze There could be more days like today Complain to the management About my lack of self-respect Fast forward to when I'll have friends And men who don't interject Harping over old regrets Hating how I let it get to me, me Only for a short while I'm bound to lose my head And just when I start to think it's ended Another demand commences I'm doing it for my future self The one who needs more attention I'll forget to forgive and hold it all in I'm old with some resentment Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh

Honestly, I didn't think I'd end up here this time Or anywhere at all, I'm distant just enough to never fall behind Picturing the saddest scene of wearing bedsheets And two pats on the back, "It just takes time" It's getting late, since when did taking time take all my life? Mommy I'm afraid I've been talking to the hotline again It's stirring but the ripples always seek out the ones who carry me I blocked out the month of February for support At least I have this year, I won't be worrying anyone on tour As we speak, I'm here to meet devils for tea Peering 'round the corner of my life I throw my drink into the faces of my demise At thirty Your honey's gonna ask you, "What the hell is wrong with me?" And finally An answer from your throat comes crawling And you can proceed

Between the gaps, I was swimming laps Got close to some epiphany I'll convince a friend to join deep ends Have your toes touch the lack of cement We'll gather to our corner of the woods Echo chambers inside a neighborhood In centerfold, humility's shown You're not as good as what your mama's sewn Aren't you glad that you reside in a hell and in disguise? Nobody yet everything, a pool to shed your memory Could you say you've even tried? You haven't called your family twice I can hope tonight goes differently, but I show up to the party just to leave Between the gaps, keep it under wraps How I got to some epiphany I'll convince myself when it turns to 12 The photos keep the sentiment We'll gather to our corner of the woods Echo chambers inside a neighborhood In centerfold, humility's shown You're not as good as what your mama's sewn Aren't you glad that you reside in a hell and in disguise? Nobody yet everything, a pool to shed your memory Could you say you even tried? You haven't called your family twice I can hope tonight goes differently, but I show up to the party just to leave Pulling back, I tried to find the point of wasting precious time I sip and toast to normalcy, a fool's way into jealousy I mock and imitate goodbyes when I know that I can't deny That I'll be here forever-while, I show up to the party just to leave

See me standing on the corner of Comstock and Waverly in a daze Where I saw my brother speak for the first time since He graduated in the spring Got a cold piece of information to bring to you Said, "Sorry, but I can't stay here while we wait for June" I miss the southern Cosmos and the Zinnias, oh, the Zinnias It comes to me in a dream In the dead heat and the suffocating wet grip That's got a hold on my mama, it's Marietta's kiss Quietly, I'm tempted Sure sounds nice to settle down for a while Let the real estate show itself to me I could wake up with a baby in a sling Just a couple doors down from Abigail My sister, man and her ring Quietly, I'm tempted Sure sounds nice to settle down for a while Let the real estate show itself to me I could wake up with a baby in a sling Just a couple doors down from Abigail My sister, man and her ring

Here we are, quiet at your kitchen table With courtesy to little pet peeves Napkins on laps, strands pulled back I hang the scarf and my mom's anorak Why do I tell you how I feel When you're just looking down the blouse? It's something I wouldn't say out loud If touch could make them hear, then touch me now If touch could make them hear, then touch me now Talking to some who laugh and others scorned I guess humor could help me after all It's funny now, I'm just useless and a whore But I get a cosign from your favorite one-man show Why do I tell you how I feel When you're too busy looking down my blouse? It's something I wouldn't say out loud If touch could make them hear, then touch me now If touch could make them hear, then touch me now If touch could make them hear, then touch me now (now)

Every night Think of things I can't do or haven't done And does it make me weak? Sometimes I feel like I can't breathe Is it all you see in me? Don't you wait for something more I'll still be sinking to the floor Oh, you can't help me Now I'm all alone Is it my doing? Is it my doing? Outside is getting colder Why does it feel like I'm older than I asked to be? But when you say my name It all falls away so tenderly Don't you wait for something more I'll still be sinking to the floor Oh, you tried to help me Why do I feel so cold? Is it my doing? Is it my doing? Is it my doing? Is it my doing? Is it my doing? Oh Hmm, is it my doing? Hmm