I want you, you want me But you never come around I watch the sea, wait patiently The waves my only sound Thoughts spin and twirl like a dancing girl, or leaves in the autumn breeze They pa** me by I lose my mind These thoughts were never meant to be But there's a time when thoughts Like these are offered places At my table to sit You said farewell, and left a spell, oh now it's that time of night again isn't it On that first night, you lit a candle bright, and swooned inside my head like alcohol But in this dream Somethin' came between And now that candle's casting Shadows on the wall Oh poets write on stormy nights And singers in the barrooms they will wail Of all the times loves made us stand in line, another chapter to this unrequited tale And now my hope is dangling by a rope And the wind's blown out This candle love has lit And all that's left to me is My own company... And now it's that time of night again isn't it