Midnight Walk in the Ruins - Peter Himmelman
I took a midnight walk in the ruins
Guess I was looking for your face
I felt a chill in the air
I knew then I was in the right place
Turned over a blue stone just to see what it was hiding
Out crawled a black snake
And it laughed as the moon when gliding
Walked through a burned-out doorway into a room whith a melted chandelier
Thought I heard your voice and I called out, "Is anybody here?"
But all I got was silence until the wind whipped up again outside
I knew then that only something mortal could be brave enough to die
How come you don't answer when I call you
You won't even part your lips to speak my name
How come you don't answer when I call you
Don't you know that we're both to blame?
Six black crows on a telephone wire
Guess they were listening for your voice
Well you still don't understand it do you
You and I we had no choice
The game it was clearly over
We had only to cash in our chips
Well I know your heart concurs with mine
But I guess I wanna hear it from your lips
Well, it's 2 A.M. and the fog's rolled in
And the moonlight has been obscured
To have gone on any longer would have been most absurd
Well my boots are covered by the morning dew
But my feet are still warm and dry
Well I wish I could say that for my cheeks now
'Cause they're damp with these tears I cry oh yeah...
How come you don't answer when I call you
You won't even part your lips to speak my name
How come you don't answer when I call you
Don't you know that we're both to blame?
I can see the frame of a house with its roof blown off
Passive victim of a violent storm
There's a grey cat with sapphire eyes lookin' for a place that's warm
I can see the headlights of a pickup trucks
Cutting like a sword through the mist
But I'm searching my mind
To remember the first time that we kissed
Everything is faded now like the dye from my old blue jeans
Well I've let go of our past
And only you know what that means
Well they say it's all a form of surrender
I like to think of it as change
But the evolution is awkward
And this whole damn world seems so strange...
How come you don't answer when I call you
You won't even part your lips to speak my name
How come you don't answer when I call you
Don't you know that we're both to blame?