Sally tells long for love, it started

in new amsterdam, she's gone, gone

through change, gone through planes

and magazines, and that is all, the

church bells ringing through her head,

some live life through the dotted line, some

bet the safe bet sounding off



the good life, the one life, the whole

life, the old life, the lasting single

solitary world that you will know,

the good life, the one life, the whole

life, the old life, the lasting single

solitary world that you will know



this counsel's faltered enough, and

shadows drag through the dusk, and

that's the way it always goes down

now this counsel's faltered enough,

back through the sin that you trust

and that's the way it always, always 

goes



chasing dreams and signing off, 

through the haze that's given up, she's

gone, gone through change, gone

through flood and hurricane, and that

is all, sheltered victory's defeat a

martyr for belief in time, a martyr

for a belief in life



the good life, the one life, the whole

life, the old life, the lasting single

solitary world that you will know,

the good life, the one life, the whole

life, the old life, the lasting single

solitary world that you will know



this counsel's faltered enough, and

shadows drag through the dusk, and

that's the way it always goes down

now this counsel's faltered enough,

back through the sin that you trust

and that's the way it always, always 

goes



our winter is long, too long for us

every year, and our blood is ice, ice

just like the roadway glare, the poor man

survives, the rich man sheds many

tears, whoever we are, we wish to God

we were better here



but no i won't say that, no i won't be

there, i'm not the answer, i don't see

clear, i don't know, myself

i don't know, myself, myself , 

and days feel like years