Flesh and Bone

I am alone, so don't speak I find war, and I find peace I find no heat, no love in me And I am low and unwell This is love, this is hell This sweet plague that follows me And my body's weak Feel my heart giving up on me I'm worried it might just be A

Iâ€ve gone through life white knuckle In the moments that left me behind Refusing to heed the yield I penetrate the force field in the blind They say Iâ€ll adjust And God knows that I must But Iâ€m not sure how This natural selection Picked me out to

Little lamb that you are Now you've wandered too far And you can't find your car You don't know where you've been When the night closes in You feel it under your skin You won't let me in You can switch it off and on You were here but now you're gone

Lately I've been trying To fill up my days since you're gone The speed of love is blinding And I didn't know how to hold on My mind won't clear, I'm out of tears My heart's got no room left inside How many dreams will end? How long can I pretend? How

I may be rotten to the core, And stop me if you think I am, A kid in a candy store, I know I'm not the first to see. The same as any dirty old man. I guarantee I'm not the last, So take some good advice from me: I hear an enticing voice. Just try it

This moisture slides from my eyes It glistens, it glistens There's nowhere left to go now If you teach me, I'll listen A favorite time for mistakes In salt lakes, we all shake Consider me your apprentice Repentant, yet hesitant Please show me a sign

Where's that leave a guy like me Windy city square If all that sells is tragedy I haven't got a prayer Should I try to lose it all, kick it off the track Just to say I took the fall but "look who's comin back" What's the story, where's the dirt