Outside Looking In

Everywhere I see the signs

Pointin' one direction

No more twists or crooked turns

Leavin' 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 walkin' 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 lookin' in

Baby all the tears between us

Couldn't fill the spaces

And all the words 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 comin' toward me

Heard the sound a heart must make

When a memory's cavin' in

Oh baby, what a hungry place?

Outside lookin' 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?

May be 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

Just standin' on the borderlines

Outside looking in