JACKSON BROWNE - The Late Show lyrics

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Everyone I've ever known has wished me well<br>Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell<br>Maybe people only ask you how you're doing<br>'cause that's easier than letting on how little they could care<br>But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere<br>Suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear<br><br>Now to see things clear it's hard enough I know<br>While you're waiting for reality to show<br>Without dreaming of the perfect love<br>And holding it so far above<br>That if you stumbled onto someone real, you'd never know<br>(you'd never know)<br>You could be with somebody who is lonely too<br>(sometimes it doesn't show)<br>He might be trying to get across to you<br>(words can be so slow)<br>When your own emptiness is all that's getting through<br>There comes a point when you're not sure why you're still talking<br>I passed that point long ago<br>(long ago)<br>Now I'm so tired of all this circling<br>And all these glimpses of the end<br>(you know it's useless to pretend)<br>That's all the voices say:<br>You'll go right on circling<br>Until you've found some kind of friend<br><br>i saw you through the laughter and the noise<br>You were talking with the soldiers and the boys<br>While they scuffled for your weary smiles<br>I thought of all the empty miles<br>And the years that I've spent looking for your eyes<br>(looking for your eyes)<br>And now I'm sitting here wondering what to say<br>(that you might recognize)<br>Afraid that all these words might scare you away<br>(and break through the disguise)<br>No one ever talks about their feelings anyway<br>Without dressing them in dreams and laughter<br>I guess it's just too painful otherwise<br><br>Look--<br>It's like you're standing in the window<br>Of a house nobody lives in<br>And I'm sitting in a car across the way<br>(let's just say)<br>It's an early model chevrolet<br>(let's just say)<br>It's a warm and windy day<br>You go and pack your sorrow<br>The trash man comes tomorrow<br>Leave it at the curb and we'll just roll away