Standing In The Doorway

(album: Time Out Of Mind - 1997)

I'm a-walking through the summer nights
The jukebox playing low
Yesterday everything was going too fast
Today it's moving too slow.

I got no place left to turn
I got nothing left to burn
Don't know if I saw you
If I would kiss you or kill you
It probably wouldn't matter to you anyhow
You left me standing in the doorway crying
I got nothing to go back to now.

The light in this place is so bad
Making me sick in the head
All the laughter is just making me sad
The stars have turned cherry red.

I'm strumming on my gay guitar
Smoking a cheap cigar
The ghost of our old love has not gone away
Don't look it like it will any time soon
You left me standing in the doorway crying
Under the midnight moon.

Maybe they'll get me, and maybe they won't
But not tonight and it won't be here
There are things I could say but I don't
I know the mercy of God must be near.

I've been riding the midnight train
Got ice water in my vein.

I would be crazy if I took you back
It would go up against every rule
You left me standing in the doorway crying
Suffering like a fool.

When the last rays of daylight go down
Buddy you're older or more
I can hear the church bells ringing in the yard
I wonder who they're ringing for?

I know I can't win
But my heart just won't give in.

Last night I danced with a stranger
But she just reminded me you were the one.

You left me standing in the doorway crying
In the dark land of the sun.

I'll eat when I'm hungry
Drink when I'm dry
And live my life on the square
And even if the flesh falls off of my face
I know someone will be there to care.

It always meaned so much, even the softest touch.

I see nothing to be gained by any explanation
There's no words that need to be said
You left me standing in the doorway crying
Blues wrapped around my head.