There's this image of you that I can't shake
That day we drove out to the ocean
So many things I wanted to say
But I knew it was all in vain
Life doesn't give you hoops to jump through
It gives you tireless roads to cross
The sadness came over me
So in love, so at loss
I've wanted you
For so very long
I've been feeling so inbetween things
Sad and stuckin' alone
Even when I'm as high as I can get
I can't forget I'm on my own
Keep thinking I can escape this
But there are no red shoes to tap
Just endless hauling through a desert
And babe there never was a map
But I've wanted you
For so very long
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
All the people I have grown to love
That I've had to leave behind
Because that was the way the road turned
I'm sorry I have let you down
You caught me in a moment
When I was trying to catch the wind
Thought there was some knd of magic
But there's just well-executed tricks
I've wanted you
For so very long
This is what time does to us
We try to fight and never win
There's no plot to follow here
Just repetition of the same old sin
I keep thinking that I've found it
A way to fill up the empty parts in me
If it's all temporary
I guess I'll have to wait and see
I've wanted you
For so very long
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
The woman who lives above me
I hear her listen to the radio
She loves the old time stations
They say "Lover don't let me go"
And I have been there before
In that place of desperate need
I'm not ready to go back there
To wait for someone else to leave
But I've wanted you
For so very long
Now I'm turnin' all my lights down
I don't know where you are tonight
Can feel so close and then so far away
Within the blinking of an eye
I convince myself I have answers
But I always call my bluff
All I have is my love to give
Some day that might be enough
But I've wanted you
For so very long
I've wanted you
For so very long
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh