It's not that I am lonely for a lover or a friend
And it's not that I'm a stranger to my kin
And it's not that I am waiting for some great thing to begin
It's a different kind of sadness setting in
And to everyone I know, I know that I'll see you again
Sitting at the tavern in the den
But all that goes to show is that the world won't stop to spin
It's a different kind of sadness setting in
And over on the corner there's a loner and a boarder
He's a store of dissapointments that have been
But for the man up in the tower who's got nothing more to win
It's a different kind of sadness setting in
We could sail the widest ocean, we could scale some great mountain
And be known among the finest gentlemen
But we'd still be met with grief and have to take it on the chin
It's a different kind of sadness setting in
And baby I should say, you know I love you more each day
I love you with a love that never ends
And here if fifty years I will still be loving you then
It's a different kind of sadness setting in
Past moments of joy slipped through my hands into the void
Or were destroyed like great statues made of tin
And through it all the only thing that I got is my skin
It's a different kind of sadness setting in
So put on your finest suit and sweep the dust into the bin
And meet me at the dance hall around ten
And tomorrow we'll talk over what tonight might still happen
With a different kind of sadness setting in