On a Night Like This

M it seems I'd known you from the start

On a night like this by candle in the dark

Are you drinking? Are you reading?

And did you watch

The barges on their low celestial waltz?

And I think I'd seen it once before

On a night like this, a thousand nights ago

We were drinking, we were laughing

And we were stoned

In the lights, arrested motion on the shore

Oh, what do you want?

These days I find that I sure ask myself a lot

I've grown bored, angry and drunk

And lonesome, lonesome alone

And you see I'm waiting here until

When one day our days are finally overfilled

Are we laughing? Are we drinking?

And am I still

Full of new regrets, all blood, and sweat and will

Oh, what do you want?

These days I find that I sure ask myself a lot

I've grown bored, angry and drunk

And lonesome, lonesome alone

Well, sometimes I lay things to rest