Outside Looking In — текст песни (Mary Chapin Carpenter)

(Mary Chapin Carpenter)

Everywhere I see the signs, pointing one direction
No more twists or crooked turns, leaving room for doubt
Where I used to take the time for quiet and reflection
Now I only hear the noise of what I am without

I see them walking hand in hand, and my eyes just want to linger
On those golden wedding bands, wrapped around their fingers
By the time I turn away, I feel it once again
I`m back in this familiar place, outside looking in

Baby, all the tears between us couldn`t fill the spaces
And all the word we grasped at, they just fell away
I kept waiting on forgiveness to fix the broken places
But nothing even like it ever came my way

And tonight I drove around, and the street came up before me
I took a turn and then I found this old house coming toward me
I heard the sound a heart must make when a memory`s caving in
Oh baby, what a hungry place, outside looking in

It`s the hardest kind of need that never knows a reason
Are we such a lonely breed, or just born in a lonely season
Baby, it`s all in the eyes, it`s where the reckoning begins
It`s where we linger like a sigh, it`s where we long to be pulled in

It`s where we learn to say goodbye without saying anything
Standing on the borderline, outside looking in