By the time that you told me
It was already plain that you've changed
But your conscience was clean
And as white as a line of cocaine
My back to the wall of your bedroom apartment
You're talking in circles
Got two cigarettes burning
And I couldn't hide I'm afraid I was to see you so strange
Don't get me wrong
I've got no ill will for you
It's just been so long
I thought I'd always know you
But you're so far gone
Up where the air gets thin
You cut the kite strings
I've seen my name in lights
I've seen my face in papers
But my civilian life, I spent ten good years
Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for you
You charmed a snake
You picked the card
You bent the spoon
A curved plane
Shapes change
Euclid's made to play the fool, but
I don't know what that stuff does to you
And I don't know if it's real, but
I spent a decade in love with you
And I can't tell if you're here
'Cause the man I knew
I don't think that he can hear me now
So dizzy with the altitude
It's just too far
But who am I to tell you to come down?
(Lucky that my palate still prefers a legal poison)
Who am I to tell you to come down?
(Sit back and raise a glass, a glass to easy choices)
Who am I, yeah, who am I, yeah, who am I to tell you to come down?
The man I knew
I don't think that he can hear me now
So dizzy with the altitude
It's just too far (too far)
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Last night you came to kiss me in a dream, but when I woke
What kind of foolishness is this?
Breathed out a lungful of your smoke
I've seen you at your brightest
What a mind, let it burn
Who am I to pull you down to Earth?
Yeah, who am I to tell you to come down?