Benjamin Orr: The lace [lyrics]

Benjamin Orr: The lace [lyrics]

Benjamin Orr

The lace

Just walking through the city

Some need to sort things out

I don't need to know the pity

I'm feeling for us now

We walked like that together

Back when I hardly knew

Why do the strangest things

Bring back those times with you?

Just when we're gettin' closer

I'm seein' somethin' new

Just soakin' up the city

Drifting the days away, yeah

Searchin' through crowds of people

The face that got away

We talked at times together

Put all my dreams on you

You let me down somehow

And now I see we're through

Turns out my best

Just wasn't good enough for you

You couldn't recognize

You're lost in the whirl

I watched you lose yourself

You couldn't feel the pull

Everythin' just ends up so sad

Too bad, I gave it what I had

Just walking through the city

Driftin' the days away, yeah

Searchin' through crowds of people

The lace that got away

Keep tellin' me it's nothin'

When I would watch you stare

How could I get to you

When you were never there?

We walked like that together

Back when I hardly knew

Why do the strangest things

Bring back those times with you?

Just when we're gettin' closer

I'm seein' somethin' new

You couldn't recognize

You're lost in the whirl, so sad