drift away

and it comes to me when i'm lying still
when life still moves around me
that they’re things around worth running to
no matter where they take you
and there’s a girl around that i’m looking for
perhaps to see once more
and i want to hold her in the rain
to shield her and embrace her
and together we’ll walk through the night of pain
and n’er drift away again

And her voice it comes and her touch it goes
within the dreams that haunt me
and i see her there sometime somewhere
in memories long long ago
another face lost in the undertow
driftin away from me
and i want to know what sea do i swim
to get back to her again

some by time and some by space
and just the other day i saw one girl’s face
i started to realize what I’d lost that day
on one of the faces that slipped away

and there’s a girl across the atlantic there’s a girl across the world
i think i might have lost her for good
i thought all we had was a dance, a trip
a couple of nights with friends
but i think i lost more than i knew
when she flew ‘way ‘cross the blue

there’s a girl much closer and still too far away
i know: the rain has told me
on my darkest nights on the Styx’s shores
she’s one of the few who can hold me
but i can’t touch her some things i can’t do
the miles lie heavy between us
though in another place in another time
she isn’t too hard to find

and it comes to me when i’m lying still
how life has moved around me
but now I’ve got to run there’re things i’ve got to find
i’m chasing the dreams on my mind
‘cause there’s too much out there
to drift away