Slowly Goes the Night (2010 Remaster)

Darling, that morning you chose to go

I awoke in my boots and clothes

You'd taken my car, stolen my cash

Even my five-hundred-dollar suit was slashed

And I just lay there watchin' the sun fall down from the sky

Not wanting to open the letter, but opening it anyway

And seeing those two words

Lover, lover, goodbye

So slowly goes the night

Next to me lies your body

Playin' like the map of some forbidden land

I trace the ghosts of your bones with my trembling hand

Dark is my night

And darker is my day

I must’ve been blind

Out of my mind

I never, never saw the warning signs

How goes it?

It goes lonely

It goes slowly

So slowly goes the night

Ten lonely days and ten lonely nights

I watch the moon get flayed each night

Until the moon becomes the skinning knife

The skins of my sins I send to cover and comfort you

I know of a Heaven

Ah but, honey, I know of a Hell

I hang my head

I toss in my bed

I'll never, never forget the words you said

"One evening, I’m leaving"

And I laughed and checked her breathing

And said, "Darling

Go slowly through the night"

Oh baby, I feel the heel of time, and it hurts

I wake to find you sitting there

Cutting tangles out of your hair

Singing a song that’s all wrong

Hey, but that’s alright, I don’t care

Oh, I'm sorry for all your misery

I reach out and embrace an empty space

A song that slowly, slowly fades

Where goes it?

It goes some place

It goes somewhere where it’s lonely

And black as the night

Ah, come on home

Let's put things right, put things right

I hang my head and cry, cry, cry, darling

All night I try

To seize on a reason for this mad, mad season

The nights, they are so long now

I can’t remember being alive

Call it sleep, call it death

Call it what you like

But only sleep, only sleep brings you back to life

I hang my head

I toss and I sweat

I never, never, never can forget

How goes it?

Well, I’m going

Baby, slowly, slowly going

And we both know that it’s gonna be alright

It ain’t you who that has to cry, cry, cry, cry

Ten lonely days, ten lonely nights

Since you left my side, side, side