The Late Show (2014 Remaster) - Jackson Browne

Everyone I've ever known has wished me well

Anyway that's how it seems it's hard to tell

Maybe people only ask you

how you're doing

'Cause that's easier than letting on

how little they could care

But when you know that

you've got a real friend somewhere

Suddenly all the others are

so much easier to bear

Now to see things clear

it's hard enough I know

While you're waiting for reality to show

Without dreaming of the perfect love

And holding it so far above

That if you stumbled onto someone real

you'd never know

You'd never know

You could be with somebody

who is lonely too

Sometimes it doesn't show

He might be trying to get across to you

Words can be so slow

When your own emptiness is all

that's getting through

There comes a point when you're not sure

why you're still talking

I passed that point long ago

Long ago

I'm so tired of all this circling

And all these glimpses of the end

You know it's useless to pretend

That's all the voices say

You'll go right on circling

Until you've found some kind of friend

While I saw you through the laughter

and the noise

You were talking with the soldiers

and the boys

While they scuffled for your weary smiles

I thought of all the empty miles

And the years that I've spent looking

for your eyes

Looking for your eyes

And now I'm sitting here wondering

what to say

That you might recognize

Afraid that all these words

might scare you away

break through the disguise

No one ever talks about

their feelings anyway

Without dressing them in dreams

and laughter

I guess it's just too painful otherwise

Look It's like you're standing in the window

Of a house nobody lives in

And I'm sitting in a car across the way

Let's just say

early model chevrolet

Let's just say

warm and windy day

You go and pack your sorrow

trash man comes tomorrow

Leave it at the curb

we'll just roll away