The Sadness

ryan adams - the sadness


the stars they sink
in the oceans of ink
long black ribbons of cars
and in the taxi
you ask me how i'm doing
but you already know

beyond, beyond is not through
its only a reflection of you
and something at the window
it motions with its fingers
calling me beyond

[02:53.92][01:06.16]the sadness is mine
[02:57.95][01:10.24]the sadness is mine
[03:01.93][01:14.25]its why you're not helping me
[03:05.95][01:18.53]and whatever has come for me
[03:11.30][01:23.74]oh i can give you whatever you're wanting
[03:15.81][01:28.53]just take it and spare me spare me
[03:19.87][01:31.62]please tell me this is only a warning,no
[03:24.52][01:37.10]please have mercy let me go
[03:27.99][01:40.71]if only a day to let her know
[03:31.93][01:44.45]without her love i'm nothing at all
[03:35.35][01:47.99]the change is happening and i'm almost gone
[03:39.37][01:52.01]in her heart is my faith
[03:40.36][01:53.24]and it wins against the sadness
[03:42.87][01:56.67]
the train it moves through the desert
the horses they will challenge its stride
and into the boxcar she leaps
and is my hero
and penetrates the demons inside

the clouds they pass
but they're moving so fast
as i watch them collide
collide and collapse in her arms like a newborn child
i am at once reborn

the fog in the mote
as he grabs me by the throat
it lifts as she comes
she opens her cloak and the color of blood
it is the sign of what now must come

deny deny me my destiny
i am not ready to go
i am the horror that brings us to the morning
where i will have to stand up and fight on




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