Why don’t you ask me   How long i’ve been waiting   Set down on the road   With the gunshots exploding   I’m waiting for you   In the gloom and the blazing   I’m waiting for you   I sing like a slave i know   I should know better   I’ve learned all my lessons   Right down to the letter   And still i go on like this   Year after year   Waiting for miracles   And shaking with fear     Why don’t you answer   Why don’t you come save me   Show me how to use   All these things   That you gave me   Turn me inside out   So my bones can save me   Turn me inside out     You’ve come this close   You can come even closer   The gunshots get louder   And the world spins faster   And things just get further   And further apart   The head from the hands   And the hands from the heart     One thing that’s true   Is the way that i love him   The earth down below   And the sky up above him   And still i go on like this   Day after day   Still i go on like this     Now i’ve said this   I already feel stronger   I can’t keep waiting for you   Any longer   I need you now   Not someday   When i’m ready   Come down on the road   Come down on the road     My name my name   Nothing is the same   I won’t go back   The way i came