Gentle Creatures

Down the road sits the Big O Motel, Where people tell lies in their own private cell. With cast down eyes and a packaged surprise, At the Big O Motel, on the vibrating bed, Cologne drenched curtains of velour red. In the smoky glass mirror I look at

Keep your arms open wide love, 'Cause I'm coming home, I don't know where I am but I don't care, 'Cause I know where I'm going. I'm going where the voices, In my head tell me to I'd walk a thousand crooked miles, To try to get back to you Chorus : We

I'm waiting, I wait, for the steps on the path, I'm waiting but steps never come The sun's burning still, And the plans that we made Have slowly faded away So long, good-bye, to that crazy moaning sky and I'll cast my heart down the well. The whole y

Is that all there is to a name, a lost and childish heart. There's nothing you give that's not dangerous or cold. Is that there is to a game, a game of broken hearts. There is no easy way to the lesson you must learn. It seems so easy for you to turn

In the muddy brown water where I wrote your name. Sadly it tells me that our luck has changed. When I met you halfway to a place we call madness, With a rock in my heart, I sank in despair. In the dusty playground where I first saw your face. Like a

Waiting for the sun to set in your eyes, Thinking that kind words are just a disguise. I wonder why you think that I should say good-bye when you know Two wrongs won't make things right. There was a time that I remember your happy smile, Was it last