Maybe I'll just stay awake keep all the lights on

Make a promise that you'll break soon as the night's gone

I think about what might've been what are the chances

You'd have ever let me win? Candlelight dances

In the corner of a room in the back of a house

In a city where the people never really turn the lights out

I know something's up there's a ringing in my ear

I can see right through you and it's crystal clear

You can talk and talk and tell me that you'll never top the spot you're at but I can't hear a thing

Be polite if that's the way you like to play the fight but I can't hear a thing

No one else can tell a lie like you I can see it in your eyes so blue

So just call your bluff it's over now and soon enough you'll knock me down but I can't hear a thing

Hoping you can cover up all of your drawbacks

Make sure you can fill your cup think that you're all that

People come and people go just like the water

Where you'll take me I don't know lamb to the slaughter

If you listen really close and you really want to hear

You can almost hear the people screaming "we don't want to be here!"

I know something's up there's a whistle in the breeze

You can make me smile but I won't say "cheese"

You can talk and talk and tell me that you'll never top the spot you're at but I can't hear a thing

Be polite if that's the way you like to play the fight but I can't hear a thing

No one else can make a marathon stop I really hope that you've got it on lock

So just call your bluff it's over now and soon enough you'll knock me down but I can't hear a thing

You can talk and talk but I can't promise that I'll listen

It's a lot to ask me to pretend it makes a difference

When you talk and talk and tell me just how much you miss it

When you had me in the ring

You can talk and talk but I don't really understand it

How you have the breath for everything you took for granted

But you talk and talk and well I'd say that I can't stand it

But I just can't hear nothing my dear no I-I-I-I-I can't hear a thing!

You can talk and talk and tell me that you'll never top the spot you're at but I can't hear a thing

Be polite if that's the way you like to play the fight but I can't hear a thing

Darling won't you turn the radio on? "Retribution" is my favorite song

So just call your bluff it's over now and soon enough you'll knock me down but I can't hear a thing

I can't hear a thing

I can't hear a thing