I wish I could create for you the feeling that I get
When I am in your arms, and I feel your subtle charms and I forget
That I knew loneliness
And I melt inside your warm and tender, sweet caress,
And I’m not threatened by their words or by their emptiness,
‘Cause I’m not here to be alone
Still the singers for the players to my left and to my right,
I cannot escape their vision; I cannot forget their sight,
Still the iv’ry keeps on tolling from the tower of delight
Amd the patrons only pay out when the watchdogs start to bite
But there’s a calm before the storm
There’s a calm before the storm
There’s an aching in my heart
Is this where the ending starts
Where will I go when I stand before the storm
I wish that I could sing for you a song that’s full of life
I’d bring out all your fears and then I’d dry the tears out of your eyes
And set your troubles free
All the sleepless nights would fade out into memory
All the creaking of the floorboards means you’re near to me
Al the nights will turn to days and then we’ll wake to see
We’re not here to be alone
Still the singers for the players to my right and to my left
And I see the things within them that I hate within myself
So I help myself to learning to remember to forget
And I hope to be returning before discov’ry of the theft
And there’s a calm before the storm
There’s a calm before the storm
There’s an aching in my heart
Is this where the ending starts
Where will I go when I stand before the storm
If I had three wishes, oh, the first would be for you
To see you through the times & ease your weary mind when all you do
Becomes too much to take
When you close your eyes and wish that you would never wake
When you wish to know the words you really mean to say
When you wish you weren’t alone
Never, never, never gonna sing this song, never gonna go without my heart along,
Never, never, never gonna break-a my pride, never gonna go, never gonna hide
Never, gonna never, gonna knock-a me down, never gonna see me touchin’ the ground,
Never, never, never gonna break my stride, never, gonna never, gonna never hide