I need to be alone tonight

This city and her streets

A cardboard sign reads help me

And I walk on

And I run.



I touch you and you feel me

I'm a riverI'm burningI'm a thief

I leave you and your skin and your beauty

I leave you and your beauty and your teeth.



Can you see this blaze flared up

From the spark of you

Now this trick I've played makes me your slave

I'll burn you outI'll start again.



I saw my name in your hand

I turned around and ran

But to you or from you it's all the same

To you or from you it's the same thing.



He says we're all alone

He builds himself a home

He builds it out of hair and teeth and fingernails and bones

He hides it in his heart

Then he tears it all apart

He plasters all the pieces up with glue and calls it art

He's a man with two left shoes

He's a pretty cockatoo

His song is full of sadness but he's beautiful in blue.



I need to be alone tonight

Alone tonight.