Barman whines and a brass bell chimes Grab the final round, it's closing time My offer to buy is politely refused Secret relief,'cause I'm down to ones and twos Make your assault on the bar, sliding into a spot You always get served faster in that low-cut top I stop my gyrations and proceed to stare As your hands flash rands through the malted air I'm a romantic at heart, but my heart is deep and dark And closer to my loins than anatomical charts Are inclined to reveal, forget Danielle Steel The real world's even worse, I keep my heart in a hearse And rehearse the same scenes that play out in my dreams I have to flip through Freud just to know what they mean In the dark of the night sparks are hard to conceal And when they fade it takes time for our vision to heal All the joints that we never smoked And all the bullshit that we never spoke You know that when I left this time I almost lost my mind All the smokes that we never burnt And all the fresh angles that we never worked You know that know I'm feeling fine But I almost lost my mind On the right night in the city stars crowd the heavens But look again, they're just satellites and 747's My cynical side sidles to the fore But I cut the volume, 'cause your optimism's got me in awe Wish I could place a voltmeter in the depth of your brain Measure the change in the current when you mention my name Oh man I'm losing my grip, circuits about to trip So I'll just mumble goodbye, leave you alone with the sky I hate to use tired cleches, 'cause they make me scream But it's appropriate to say confusion reigns supreme Come on and raise the handbreak, drop the car out of gear Straighten my antenna so that the picture will clear Perched upon my ivory tower, I watch the scenery roll by Let my hair down like rapunzel, but the tower's too high Me and my ego hit the bar by the end of the night To share a drink with Alice 'til we shrink out of sight All the joints that we never smoked And all the bullshit that we never spoke You know that when I left this time I almost lost my mind All the smokes that we never burnt And all the fresh angles that we never worked You know that know I'm feeling fine But I almost lost my mind All the joints that we never smoked And all the bullshit that we never spoke You know that when I left this time I almost lost my mind All the smokes that we never burnt And all the fresh angles that we never worked You know that know I'm feeling fine But I almost lost my mind All the joints that we never smoked And all the bullshit that we never spoke You know that when I left this time I almost lost my mind All the smokes that we never burnt And all the fresh angles that we never worked You know that know I'm feeling fine But I almost lost my mind