No life's so short it can't turn around

You can't spend your life living underground

For from above you don't hear a sound

And I'm out here, waiting

I don't understand what you want me to be

It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am

But I know that it's all that you see



No life's so short that it never learns

No flame so small that it never burns

No page so sure that it never turns

And I'm out here, waiting

I don't understand what you want me to be

It's the dark you're hating, it's not who I am

But I know that it's all that you see



(bridge)

Can you live your life in a day, putting every moment in play?

Never hear a word that they say as the wheels go around



Tell me if you win would it show - in a thousand years, who would know?

As a million lives come and go on this same piece of ground



(simultaneously)



Can you live your life in a day       I've been waiting

Putting every moment in play?

Never hear a word that they say       I don't understand what you want me to be

As the wheels go around

Tell me if you win would it show      It's the dark you're hating

In a thousand years, who would know?

As a million lives come and go        It's not who I am, but it is what you see

On this same piece of ground



(simultaneously)



1.

I've been waiting

I don't understand what you want me to be

It's the dark you're hating

It's not who I am, but it is what you see



2.

/Can you live your life in a day

Putting every moment in play?

/Never hear a word that they say

As the wheels go around

/Tell me if you win would it show

In a thousand years, who would know?

/As a million lives come and go

On this same piece of ground



3.

/Tell me would you really want to

See me leave this night without you

/Would you ever look about you

Wondering where we might be

/New York is so far away now

Tokyo, Berlin and Moscow

/Only dreams from here but somehow

One day that world we will see



(simultaneously again, except substitute this for stanza 1 and clip last three syllables

of the last line of stanzas 2 and 3)



1.

I don't understand

I don't understand

I don't understand

I don't understand

I don't understand

I don't understand

I don't understand

I don't understand...



(together, immediately)



...what I see.



(solo)



(coda)

I swear on tomorrow, if you take this chance

Our lives are this moment, the music - the dance

And here in this labyrinth of lost mysteries

I close my eyes on this night and you're all that I see



You're all that I see