I close my eyes and find you in the dreams I have at night,
as you lay across my mem'ry, like a shadow in the light
It's amazing what I tell myself, that I don't care at all
I think I've gotten over you, but I take two steps so fall
When all along it was me who was wrong and I'm just too blind to see,
of all the things that touched my life you've been the best for me.
(Chorus:)
And when I wake up, there's an empty bed to make up
It isn't* easy when you break up with someone you love like you
What can you do?
And when I rise up there are tears that fill my eyes up
And it's too late for me to wise up,
'cause I was wrong and now we're through - what can I do?
Instrumental
I must have tried a hundred ways, trying to forget
I wind up with the same two things, a glass and cigarette
A man's a fool who fools himself, who hides behind his pride
I know too well from tears that fell and all the nights I cried
Amazing what you think of when you sit around at night
With drink in hand I sit there and I blackout by the light.
Chorus
*P.A. widersteht der Versuchung, hier "ain't" statt des etwas holprigen "it isn't" zu singen - 1974 ging sprachliche Korrektheit noch vor flüssigem Gesang.