A Matter of Time
You're looking for a way out, I can feel itCome on, show me where it hurts, maybe I can heal itYour feelings are your own, now you keep them under lock and keyYou've got me driving through the streets for an answer to the mystery
The world's still awake on Charleston AvenueOutside that vacant starlight motelI see youLaughing with your girlfriendsNot a care in the worldNot a burden on your mind
It was a matter of time
There's a panic in this house and it's bound to surfaceJust walking through the front door makes me nervousIt's creeping up the floorboards, got me wondering where I standI cannot put out the fire, I've got a book of matches in my hand
When we first met, headstrong and filled with doubtMade just enough, hustling tables, that summer to take you outI was falling back on foreverWhen you told me about your heartYou laid it on the line
Laughing with your girlfriendsNot a care in the worldNot a burden on your mindYou're hanging on the line!
It was just a matterIt was a matter of time
We'd find ourselves a place, we belong in this foreverAin't that what it's all about?Make the promise and keep itCome hell or high waterWe'd figure it out
It was the night, it was the moonIt was the green grass in the gardenThe victory and the sin
I know you're weary, look at meFlailing in the cornerHere's the towelGo on, throw it in
It was a matter of timeCan't you see that it's tearing me up inside?Look what's laying at our feetThat's the wreckage of broken dreamsAnd burned out halosAnd it's here on our street