The Late Show (LP Version)

Song The Late Show (LP Version)
Artist Jackson Browne
Album Late For The Sky

Lyrics

[00:01.56] Everyone I've ever known has wished me well
[00:07.90] Anyway, that's how it seems, it's hard to tell
[00:14.58] Maybe people only ask you how you're doing
[00:19.16] 'Cause that's easier than letting on how little they could care
[00:29.42] But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere
[00:36.04] Suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear
[00:41.87] Now to see things clear it's hard enough, I know
[00:48.71] While you're waiting for reality to show
[00:55.29] Without dreamin' of the perfect love
[00:58.85] And holding it so far above
[01:02.12] That if you stumbled onto someone real, you'd never know
[01:07.95] (You'd never know)
[01:10.51] You could be with somebody who is lonely too
[01:13.62] (Sometimes it doesn't show)
[01:16.99] He might be trying to get across to you
[01:20.86] (Words can be so slow)
[01:23.18] When your own emptiness is all that's gettin' through
[01:28.20] There comes a point when you're not sure why you're still talking
[01:33.91] I passed that point long ago
[01:38.49] (Long ago)
[01:43.26] I'm so tired of all this circling
[01:49.29] And all these glimpses of the end
[01:52.91] (You know it's useless to pretend)
[01:56.17] That's all the voices say, you'll go right on circling
[02:03.06] Until you've found some kind of friend
[02:08.47] Well, I saw you through the laughter and the noise
[02:15.26] You were talking with the soldiers and the boys
[02:22.04] While they scuffled for your weary smiles
[02:25.40] I thought of all the empty miles
[02:28.63] And the years that I've spent looking for your eyes
[02:34.05] (Looking for your eyes)
[02:36.20] Now I'm sitting here wondering what to say
[02:40.32] (That you might recognize)
[02:42.74] Afraid that all these words might scare you away
[02:47.26] (To break through the disguise)
[02:49.22] No one ever talks about their feelings anyway
[02:54.75] Without dressing them in dreams and laughter
[02:59.06] I guess it's just too painful otherwise
[03:33.49] Look, it's like you're standing in the window
[03:38.48] Of a house nobody lives in
[03:41.94] And I'm sitting in a car across the way
[03:47.58] (Let's just say)
[03:49.44] It's an early model Chevrolet
[03:53.76] (Let's just say)
[03:56.57] It's a warm and windy day
[04:02.41] You go and pack your sorrow
[04:05.02] The trash man comes tomorrow
[04:08.29] Leave it at the kerb and we'll just roll away