Staring at the phone that's calling Knowing all the words we can not say Remembering your fingers touching Getting close to me, close to me Numbing off the pain you left here Places on myself you used to feel Feel it right, gonna get it right Nothing but a vintage novel I could get you high, close your eyes and see Oh come with me, come with me Baby, I am not your story I just want a clean escape out But when I'm alone with you (With you, with you) Yeah, when I'm alone I fall (I fall) Yeah, when I'm alone with you (With you, with you) Nothing but a ghost that's haunting I can get you high, get you off the ground Just close your eyes and try I swore I could live just off that feeling But baby we don't work outside this city Maybe we're a story that I wrote 'Bout two kids who were broke Patti Smith and Rimbaud Why can't I let you go, when I don't want to stay You're turning me insane You're painting your portrait of a cold and lonely heart You found a thousand ways to break a heart Break a heart, love can't save us all Baby, I don't want to be uneasy Pulling and then leave ya Got nothing left to tell ya He says he can't understand I'm so lovely at night but so lonesome at day We got nothing to say, so I drink it away A bottle each day, oh take me away But when I'm alone with you (With you, with you) Yeah, when I'm alone I fall (I fall) Yeah, when I (When I) get close (Get close) to you (To you, to you) Oh, when I (When I) get close (Get close) I fall (I fall When I'm alone with you (With you) When I get close I fall (I fall) When I'm alone with you, with you