And the headlights on the highway Could not help me understand Whatever it is you need, I pray I am You wear nothing but a smile, a nervous laughter Spending evenings in your dark blue cotton sheets And I've spent years, it seems, just wandering through the darkness And the answer came on that late summer breeze And the headlights on the highway Could not help me understand Whatever it is you need, I pray I am With my fingertips I trace on your bare skin All of the things I'd like to say but cannot speak You mean everything, there are not quite words enough To tell you all the things that you've become for me And the headlights on the highway Could not help me understand Whatever it is you need, I pray I am And I don't need no secrets, I give up on lies If it's gonna rain I'd rather know than be caught blind And the headlights on the highway Could not help me understand Whatever it is you need, I pray I am And the headlights on the highway Could not help me understand Whatever it is you need, I pray I am