Wailing Wall

Before the night is over I will have you down

Hold you there 'til everything comes clear

'Cause you look so much like me

That it's hard for me to see who's holding who

But isn't that what we do?

The colors of this room never change

The fragile friends have come and gone

And it's harder to reveal

So we shut our eyes and steal again from what we know

I wish I could let it go

You were my wailing wall

My endless fascination

The voice of inspiration in an empty hall

You were my wailing wall

When the nights would never end

Twisting closer to the bend where the lonely fall

You were my wailing wall

Don't get too sentimental, the past is just the past

Now I have to live from day to day

Still I've come to see the healer

From the back door of the dealer

Where the broken souls get lost in the undertow

You were my wailing wall

My endless fascination

The voice of inspiration in an empty hall

My wailing wall

When the nights would never end

Twisting closer to the bend where the lonely fall

You were my wailing wall

Flipping through the names of the friends I haven't burned

The pages fall like leaves on the lessons never learned

Secrets only breathe if you hold them to your chest

And nothing smells like fear and nothing suffers like regret

You were my wailing wall

My endless fascination

The voice of inspiration in an empty hall

You were my wailing wall

When the nights would never end

Twisting closer to the bend where the lonely fall

You were my wailing wall

When the nights would never end

Twisting closer to the bend where the lonely fall

You were my wailing wall