Dead Man's Waltz

When you're weary and worn out
 And no arms can seem to hold you
 When you're heavy and strung out
 And tired with no place to go to
 And the times feel for certain
 That nobody's hurtin' like you do
 Bring your heartache and smile
 And we'll walk as many miles as we have to
 When the people you've known
 Wave like armfuls of smoke through the air
 And the rain on your shoulders
 Doesn't pass like the wind through your hair
 And your eyes begin to fool you
 And fail you from the face that you wear
 Don't trust any mirrors you will need something clearer
 To find what you're looking for there
 If the streets don't respect you
 Yet constantly rap at your door
 Well you know what neglect means
 Now you know what deceit can afford
 But to stand there like that with your heart in your hands
 Dealing for more
 The streets will break in again and again
 And take only what you're living for
 Since your body betrayed you
 You've been so afraid of the cold
 But what storm has pursued you
 That makes you do everything that you're told
 It must be the ice that drains
 Down from your eyes through your clothes
 That first taught you your voice
 But now haunts you with it from the side of the road
 To look at your face is to lose myself in those eyes
 How softly they open and swiftly they close from the light
 Like the curtains in your room bending shadows over you tonight
 As you snake through your skin from the shape you've been in
 That you still somehow seem to fit inside
 Like the shadows on your face
 Can't help falling into place line by line
 As the strangers that pass
 Leave their fingerprints on the glass
 Just so they can say they at least tried
 Well if the whole world looks vain
 Through this tainted window frame
 You're probably right