Shadowland

I'd have time on my hands
Time to make some plans
Time to take a different point of view
Time to take a walk
And time to sit and talk
But you know i'm too busy bein' blue

I'd have time to fool around
Time to paint the town
Time to spend each night
With someone new
Time to be alone
And time to stay out all night long
But you know i'm too busy bein' blue


I'd have time to leave behind
For to you and all your kind
Time to leave behind the world we knew
But i'm still occupied
Just rememberin' how we cried
But you know i'm too busy bein' blue

Tears don't care who cries them
They don't care at all
Any time a heart starts breaking
They will fall and fall

Rich man, poor man, beggar
Tears can fill each eye
They don't care who cries them
You just cry, cry, cry


*once my love and dreams
Were in your keeping
Then you walked away
With someone new
Once you laughed at me
When (while) i was weeping
What happened to me
Has happened to you
Tears don't care who cries them
But my eyes are dry
I'm laughing now while you learn how
To cry, cry, cry


(repeat *)

Waltz me once again
"round that dance floor
Make my head go spinnin' 'roud
Dance me over by that bandstand
'cause i love that twin fiddle sound

When we're dancin' close
Cheek to cheek
My head gets woozy
And my knees get weak
Waltz me once again
'round that dance floor
Make my head go spinnin' 'round
It's friday night
And the joint is swingin'
Inside these swingin' doors
And all the cowpokes they're a dancin'
And slippin' 'round this sawdust floor


But you better watch out
Who you let cut in
'cause you might loose your baby
To your best friend
Well, waltz me once again
'round that dance floor
Make my head go spinnin' 'round


We spin around, 'round and 'round
Dancin' all night long
The music stopped at three o'clock
But some fool turned that jukebox on


Waltz me once again
'round the dance floor we'll dance all night long

I'm a shadow since you're gone
Just a shadow in the dawn
That breaks in the sand
A shadow lost in shadowland

My poor hear just flew away
When it realized one day
The dreams that we planned
Would only end in shadowland


I always wondered
Why you had to go
Whatever blunder i mad
I don't know
I guess that something
Turned out wrong
Didn't quite belong
In this lover's song


I'm a shadow, but you know
I'm the one who loves you so
So please, take my hand
And lead me out of shadowland
And lead me out of shadowland

I'm feelin' mighty lonesome
Haven't slept a wink
I walk the floor from nine to four
In between i drink
Black coffee
Love's a hand-me-down brew
I'll never know a sunday
In this weekday room

I'm talkin to the shadow
One o'clock till four
And lord, how slow the moments go
And all i do is pour
Black coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hangin' out on monday
My sunday dreams to dry


Now man was born to go a lovin'
But was a woman born to weep and fret
And stay at home and tend her oven
And down her past regrets
In coffee and cigarettes


I'm moonin' all the mornin'
Moanin' all the night
And in between it's nicotine
And not much heart to fight
Black coffee
Feelin' low as the ground
It's drivin' me crazy
This thinkin' 'bout my baby
Might maybe come around
Come around

Someday i won't come runnin'
When you call
The way you hurt me
It's a wonder i'm still here at all

Someday you'll wake up
And you'll find yourself alone
Lock, stock and teardrops
I'll be gone


I can't go on
The way you make me feel
You make me cry
And every time expect me to forgive


Someday you'll wake up
To a cold and lonely dawn
Lock, stock and teardrops
I'll be gone


Oh someday i'll wake up
And find the strength to carry on
And lock, stock and teardrops
I'll be gone
Lock, stock and teardrops
Lock, stock and teardrops
Lock, stock and teardrops
I'll be gone