I'm back from hell and back again
To make amends
Your pocket swallows up your hand
When mine extends

(All is forgiven)
Give me the will
Give me the way
This is the time
Leave it behind the Rhine

Don't play it back inside your head
There's no rewind

So good to hear your voice
Yeah I know its been a long time
Sometimes I miss those years
The melodrama that we went through
I dropped the telephone
When I heard youre getting married
Take a step back with me
And see your life from a birds-eye view
Forgive me if yo

At 2 p.m. she eats a late lunch by design
So that shell have some self-control at dinnertime
Not much at all gets done on Friday afternoon
So who would mind if she should leave a little soon?
The welcome breath of open air
The daily driving regimen
Talk radio to fill her

Overtime
Home by nine
Watch TV to loosen up my mind
Pay the bills
Earn a wage
Just enough to keep it all the same
Somehow life slips away
Good or bad it's just another day
On my own in this world
Safe and sound

But I don't want to stare out the window