There?s love in the corners and love down the straight highway
There?s danger in the outskirts of town and in what you don?t say
You?re either sinking or thinking, the dark?s your romance
Or a special one?s shining a light on a chance
That it?s all very worthy to ache
In the middle of the night

Sometimes I can?t sleep, I can?t keep all these feelings at bay
I am rage, I am sorrow and grief all alone in my way
I know humor and heartbreak and people are life
If I keep my eyes closed I?ll be open to strife
Because the powers that be send their love
In the middle of the night

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I?m gonna stand up and let myself be counted for
Stand up now
I?ve got my one life and what?s it to amount to if I don?t learn how
To love you and love myself beside you
Mix the gentle and proud
I want to love life, the vision in the window told me
Stand up

To my mother my father, my witnesses live in my jagged heart
That for years has been running like fire as though that was its part
From lover to cover and ocean to sky
From desert to mountain and promise to lie
I can say that I?ve prayed to forgiveness
In the middle of the night

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Now I can see love in the woman and love in the man in myself
I see how most people just ache to be good at expressing themselves
And I wish I could tell you just right what I mean
About the light shining down, if I?d only come clean
But for now I live with myself
In the middle of the night

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