I've spent all my life just carrying on   And for every right thing   I've done ten have been wrong   It's not that I'm bragging for the sake of a song   But life looks much better in perspective   Your eyes look at me   from near and fom far   Ten thousand miles and you're still where you are   Another brass rail in another old bar   i'm better at dreaming than living      For every hello   there's a thousand good byes   And leaving is harder when I look in your eyes   You've got to believe me   I'm not telling lies   That for every hello   ther's a thousand good byes      The years slip away    like the spring melts the snow   And I'm older and wiser than you'll ever know   And if you believe that   then it's time I should go   Cause I'm just as confused   and more twisted   And things keep on changing   for better or worse   And rhymes just get harder   with every new verse   And to say that I love you sounds way to perverse   Cause I'm getting on the bus   in the morning      I could give it all to you   But I can't control the things that I do   And I don't know what to say   Cause the sun's coming up and I know   I can't stay