Burning of the Midnight Lamp

The morning is dead

And the day is too

There's nothing left here to meet me

But the velvet moon

All my loneliness

I have felt today

It's like a little more than enough

To make a man throw himself away

And I continue

To burn the midnight lamp

Alone

Now the smiling portrait of you

Is still hangin' on my frowning wall

But it really doesn't, really doesn't bother me

Too much at all

It's just the ever falling dust

That makes it so hard for me to see

That forgotten earring layin' on the floor

Facing coldly towards the door

And I continue

To burn the midnight lamp

Whoa, Lord

Burn

Lonely, lonely, lonely

Loneliness is such a drag

So here I sit and pace

That same old fireplace

Gets ready for the same old explosion

Goin' through my mind

And soon enough time will tell

About the circus and the wishing well

And someone who will buy and sell for me

Someone who will toll my bell

And I continue

To burn the same old lamp

Alone

Yeah

Lightnin', can ya hear me callin' you?

So lonely

Gonna blow my mind

Yeah, yeah

Lonely, lonely

My, my