Midnight Sun

If I come back this way again
I hope to be the person everybody thinks I am
Pull the wool from out my eyes
Oh sweet heaven when I die

Where there's a will there's a way
Time goes on and it gets harder every day
Desperation, a death to hope
Choking words caught in my throat

How will you tell the ones that care
I'd rather die by your hands
Then find new love anywhere

Too late too rise
You've been down for so damn long this time
Dark days long nights
Midnight sun take the light from out my eyes

You've got me shaking all the time
And pining out for the life I left behind
I cannot think I cannot breathe
I seek the end my sweet release

I feel the darkness coming in
St. Michael say a prayer
The dragon's back again
Full of snakes like every man
This is a fight no one will win

I have lived on borrowed time
Just waiting for a sign
For redemption in your eyes

Too late too rise
You've been down for so damn long this time
Dark days long nights
Midnight sun take the light from out my eyes
She pays $10 for the show
Makes her way through the crowd
And cuts from throat to throat
Up to the front where the lights hang low
The dying crowd just wants one more

And now we stand there face to face
It all comes rushing back like it was yesterday
Love and tears hope and hate
Bergamot buckskin and lace

My trail ends in the pale floodlights
Neath the curtains and the smoke
With the blood the lead and love
Still stuck inside my throat

When it's too late too rise
You've been down for too damn long this time
Dark days long nights
Midnight sun take the light from out my eyes