Gracefully, gracefully   I wanted to leave   Gracefully, gracefully   I wanted to leave   But it ain't easy   If somebody else isn't gone      Honestly, honestly   I told her before   Honestly, honestly   I told her before   But it ain't easy   If somebody else doesn't hear   And it ain't easy   If somebody else doesn't see      How the traffic stalls, curtain calls   Kept me away from facing it all   We've made it hard a world apart   You're playing house and I'm playing   rock star      It got cold and pale. Every nail   Sealing me into a beautiful failure   All the stones we might have thrown   Were building up walls that kept me   from saying      Gracefully, gracefully   I wanted to leave   Gracefully, gracefully   I wanted to leave   But it ain't easy   If somebody else isn't gone