Without Me Songtext
von Sally Taylor

Charles crawls in with a bucket of stars
Risks his life trying to sit beside me
I play guitar while he falls in love without me

(I′m alone, I want to feel you there)
I am alone

Seeing myself painted through his eyes
I look grand with my hair all up in rolls
I look grand painted through his eyes without me

(I'm alone, I want to feel you there)
I am alone

I can′t explain why I'm not around
Inside my skin, feel like I'm drowning
Deeper into the soulless of sounds
Without myself, I am again

Shy he looks and he breathes me in
Tide rolls up on a shoreline again
We never kiss but you know he′s making love without me

(I′m alone, I want to feel you there)
I am alone


Time slips away undernourished under the music
Under the tidal winds that understand these canyon whispers
And meets us somewhere soft
In our memories, in our morrows
Inside the timelessness of hours
This light that breathes me in

I am a puppet clothed in skin and passion and wonder and stars
I am exhilarated and exhausted
I am lonely, I am alone, I am surrounded by arms

Here again, a fly on the wall of America
Listening to rumors and motors and mothers
Soothing the sighs of their illicit lovers
Embraced by men they don't care to mention
And whisper in spell of letters, "Again, sir, again"

And jack-o′-lanterns squint with their orange eyes
And leaves fall away, I thought I'd go with them
This chill enters me and filled with surprise
And wallpapers peel away at their sides
Then nighttime creeps up and it blinds me inside
And reminds me that maybe I don′t know how to love


Minutes in passing wear suits and they're laughing
And telling of stories, the fun they′ve been having without me
In theaters and cigars and bright chandeliers
And black backroom bars
So the scent of licorice fills me then leaves me again
And a metallic sense of silence seems to choke me within
And I feel to myself that this life will not end
And I know that without me, I am again