The music in the hall was thumping He scarred to the corner to the wall he was standing He waited for the score Like a train to arrive He never wears flashes Smiles real or imagines All the badges that are worn at the door to get in Slowly beat start racing He starts bracing for the shock Not easily it begins Corner of 14th, cold like a branch A man done no wrong A heart that stopped beating reason for believing Without a sign The world's greatest lover, choking on his crown Head long through the den the traffic slow to snakin' Under the lights on the boulevard a girl with another's name In deep into his skin She slips him something, swallow it might save him You know all these things all the truths, she keeps repeating Through the music that he uses through the rhythm of his breathing She is not the one he dreams When some nights get lonely We take anything to believe Corner of 14th Cold like a branch A man figured out all wrong A heart that stopped beating reason for believing