Don't Mind Me, I'm Only Dying Slow

Out from my window, the people are passing on by

I hear them complain but I know that they don't even try

And the lights down on Main Street don't shine like they used to

And I'm thinking of nothing but spending a lifetime with you

You know that I love you, you know that I wait by your door

You know how I'm feeling, so I won't have to feel it no more

But nobody could ever love you like I can

Honey someday you'll wake up and maybe you'll understand

Now I got a friend of a friend who drives a nice car

And I got acquaintances down at the neighborhood bar

And I got some women; they stop on by my home

But somehow I always wake up each morning alone

And the train that I ride has nothing aside

From the Phantom Conductor with a dog at his side

And the ghost of a weeping, weddingless bride

Who should have been married but never arrived

And I see through the windows like I see through the lies

Like I see through every useless disguise that

Everyone wears but everyone swears that they don't

Ah but don't mind me baby, I'm only dying slow

I'm trying so hard just to forget about you

I try not to care about anything that you do

But four in the morning and I just can't sleep

The pills ain't workin and I can't get no relief

And I feel like a hound dog moaning along with the rain

Any day now, the jukebox could drive me insane

There's an old man in the corner that nobody knows

He says: “laugh while you can cause someday you'll be wearing my clothes”

But I guess I can't tell you what you don't already know

And I ain't no prophet, my landlord he told me so

But my mind is a burning ring of Saturn Flame…

And I feel things inside that I just cant explain

I know that you know how to fake and to take what

You break what you burn what you never did learn

Then you turn and you say that you've made a mistake

As your head starts to spin and your heart starts to ache

But all that you make will be all that you get

When the curtain goes down, but don't you forget

That all your regret is a cheap silhouette and that's all…

Ah but don't mind me baby, i'm only dying slow

I met a gambler who did nothing but lose all day

He had love in his hands but he let her slip away

And all he ever wanted was to give her a win

But all she ever really wanted was him