Lookin’ In

[Verse 1]
Can't seem to settle down
Maybe I'll just hang around
But every time you pick me up
I guess I take you down

[Verse 2]
But here I am again
You'll take me back and then
It won't be long 'til I'll be gone
Up on my way again

[Bridge]
So I spend my days thinkin' up new ways
To do the same old thing
Seasons come and go without a name
And I spend my nights in the bright spotlights
Wishin' I could let the people know
You can't win or lose unless you play the game

[Verse 3]
Sittin' in the airport, awaitin' on my plane
Nothin' to do for an hour or two
So I try to find a message in a picture I drew
In the corner of a letter from a boy I knew

[Verse 4]
Off the plane and through the rain into a limousine
The traffic's slow so I miss my show
But lookin' out the window somehow I know
That they're about to play my record on the radio

[Bridge]
So, I write another song as I go along
To let you know just where I'd been
Don't want to meet myself at the masquerade
You can tell in my verse if I get worse
By the chorus I may be fine
A line, my friend, can end the kind charade

[Verse 5]
Layin' in my hotel room, wantin' to be alone
Needin' the time to rest my mind
But they bring in another stack of papers to sign
And L.A.'s waitin' on the other line

[Verse 6]
So, I'm packin' up, and I'm checkin' out, I'm on the road again
Feelin' like I'm in a pantomime
But the words will come to me in their own good time
Tumblin' and stumblin' over in rhyme

[Bridge]
And the ugliest word that I ever heard
My friends, is sacrifice
It's an easy out for all you should have been
And if there's one thing that I just can't bring
Myself to compromise
It's blamin' somebody else for the state I'm in

[Outro]
Oh, but then again
Daddy never loved his baby girl, no how
Ah, what's the difference now?