Restless hearts walking lonely
down the snowy back street lines
Is this the part where the red lights
and the pale moon should sway in time?
But outside there's no music
The wind blows as cars go by
It'd be so easy to run back to you tonight
But as long as you're still living
A few short blocks away
Don't want my heart to go there
My feet to walk that way
Don't want my words to come out wrong
But every night just seems too long
I don't think that I can stay
Don't think that I can stay
And isn't life sweet and lovely
when you know who's by your side
Don't gotta ask the god above me
Where I should run and hide
But someone said "Time's a-wastin'"
Well I'm not nearly twenty-five
Should I fear a lonely death
When I'm barely half alive
But as long as you're still living
A few short blocks away
Don't want my heart to go there
My feet to walk that way
Don't want my words to come out wrong
But every night just seems too long
I don't think that I can stay
Don't think that I can stay
(whistles)
Even in the morning
You can't even see the signs
He can't walk on water
And you can't read between these lines
So why do you stay
when it seems so hard to breathe?
From Stradbroke to highways
His face is all you see
And as long as you're still living
a few short blocks away
My heart will not go there
But my feet won't let me stay