By the time that you told me
It was already plain that you'd changed
But your conscience was clean
And as white as a line of cocaine
My back to the wall of
Your bedroom apartment
You're talking in circles
Got two cigarettes burning
And I couldn't hide how afraid
I was to see you so strange
Don't get me wrong
I've got no ill will for you
It's just been so long
I thought I'd always know you
But you're so far gone
Up where the air gets thin
You cut the kite strings
I've seen my name in lights
I've seen my face in papers
Hut my civilian life
I spent ten good years waiting
Waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting
Waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting
Waiting for you
You charmed the name
You picked the card
You bent the spoon
A curved plane
The shapes change
Euclid's made to play the fool but
I don't know what that
Stuff does to you
And I don't know
If it's real but
I spent a decade in love with you
And I can't tell
If you're here cause
The man I knew
I don't think that
He can hear me now
So dizzy with the altitude
It's just too far
Who am I to tell
You to come down
Lucky that my palette still
Prefers a legal poison
Who am I to tell
You to come down
Sit back and raise a glass
A glass to easy choices
Who am I yeah who am I
Yeah who am I
To tell you to come down
The man I knew
I don't think that
He can hear me now
So dizzy with the altitude
It's just too far
Last night you came to
Kiss me in a dream
And when I woke
What kind of foolishness is this
Breathed out a lungful of your smoke
I've seen you at your brightest
What a mind let it burn
Who am I to pull
You down to earth
Yeah who am I to tell
You to come down
Come down
